Martyn Quotes

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

God and eternal things are my only pleasure.

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy?

Now let me burn out for God.

You can't live in the past, musically if you do, you are dead.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

To be your best today, your only goal is to outperform the guy you were yesterday.

The true preacher does not seek for truth in the pulpit; he is there because he has found it.

Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold.

The goal of all your hard work should be to make your reality everyone else's fantasy land.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

The most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.

Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.

Our Gospel is a Gospel of blood; blood is the foundation; without it there is nothing.

I really don't like being referred to as a folk artist.

Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It’s up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.

If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ.

Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!

A good pickpocket isn’t afraid of intimacy.

Pickpocket is a sink-or-swim profession, not something that can be taught in the comfort of your living room.

Common sense is only irritating in other people

Life without risks is like a burrito without Tabasco. Bland, but you’ll still fart.

We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.

Sovereignty is not to be considered as an attribute of God-in the sense of being a quality which exists in God (such as omnipotence and omniscience)-rather it is the result of His attributes.

How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fulness and in Him alone.

The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment."Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God