Below are 31 of our favorite Martyn Lloyd-Jones quotes. We hope you find them helpful in your daily walk with the Lord.

“If you do not desire to be holy—then you have no right to think that you are a Christian.”

“Christians are generally at their best, when they are in the furnace of affliction and being persecuted and tried.”

“Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all. We deserve nothing but Hell! If you think you deserve Heaven—then you are not a Christian.”

“If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.”

“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out and hits you and arrests you, do not go on reading. Stop immediately, and listen to it. It is speaking to you, so listen to it and speak to it. Stop reading at once, and work on this statement that has struck you in this way.”

“If you claim to love Christ and yet are living an unholy life, there is only one thing to say about you: You are a bare-faced liar!”

“The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.”

“God is nowhere more hidden, than in most churches!”

“Repentance means that you realize that you are a guilty, vile sinner in the presence of God, that you deserve the wrath and punishment of God, that you are Hell-bound. You renounce the world whatever the cost, the world in its mind and outlook as well as its practice. You deny yourself, and take up the cross and go after Christ. Your nearest and dearest, and the whole world, may call you a fool, or say you have religious mania. You may have to suffer financially—but it makes no difference. That is repentance.”

“The Christian is not a good man. He is a vile wretch who has been saved by the grace of God!”

“Most people are forever saying that “they simply cannot believe that God will punish the unrepentant sinner to all eternity.” They cannot believe that God will do so—therefore, they draw the conclusion that God does not and will not. In other words, God does what they believe He ought to do or not do. They are always criticizing God, and pontificating about what God should or should not do, and asking, “Why does God allow this and that?”
What a false and blasphemous conception of God! How utterly untrue and unworthy! Such is the new paganism of today!”

“Pride is probably the deadliest and the most subtle of all sins, and it can assume many forms!”

“Our Lord does not promise to change life for us; He does not promise to remove difficulties and trials and problems and tribulations; He does not say that He is going to cut out all the thorns and leave the roses with their wonderful perfume. No; He faces life realistically, and tells us that these are things to which the flesh is heir, and which are bound to come. But He assures us that we can so know Him that, whatever happens, we need never be frightened, we need never be alarmed.”

“You are always on duty in the Christian life. There is no such thing as a vacation in the spiritual realm.”

“The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching, is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is ultimately the knowledge of God—the more theology I know, the more it should drive me to seek to know God. Not to know “about” Him—but to know Him! The whole object of salvation is to bring me to knowledge of God. If all my knowledge does not lead me to prayer, then there is something wrong somewhere.”

“The man who refuses to face the fact of his own death, is a fool!”

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man’s troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”

“I would rather make bricks without straw—than try to live the Sermon on the Mount in my own strength.”

“In the last analysis, it is not the temptations that meet us on the streets that determine our conduct—it is the heart of the man who faces them. Two men may face the same conditions; one falls—and the other stands. The difference is not in the temptation, but in the heart of the man.”

“Nothing we do in the Christian life, is harder than prayer.”

“We have somehow got hold of the idea that error is only that which is outrageously wrong; and we do not seem to understand that the most dangerous person of all is the one who does not emphasize the right things.”

“The great doctrine of the second advent has in a sense fallen into disrepute because of the tendency on the part of some to be more interested in the how and the when of the second coming rather than in the fact of the second coming.”

“Why are there wars in the world? Why is there this constant international tension? What is the matter with the world? Why war and all the unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? According to this Beatitude, there is only one answer to these questions-sin. Nothing else; just sin.”

“Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us, so much as our prayer life.”

“Whenever I realize something of what my blessed Lord has done for me at Calvary—I am ready to forgive anybody anything.”

“Justification not only means that our sins are forgiven—but that we have been declared to be righteous by God Himself. It not merely means that we were righteous at the moment when we believed—but that we are permanently righteous. Justification also means that we are given by God the positive righteousness of His own Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

“Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.”

“Avoid cleverness and smartness in the pulpit. The people will detect this, and they will get the impression that you are more interested in promoting yourself and your cleverness, than in the truth of God and their souls.”

“An evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book. He starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his sole authority.”

“Our supreme need, our only need, is to know God, the living God!”