Top 90 Arthur W. Pink Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty.”

— Arthur W. Pink

2. “Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.”

— Arthur W. Pink

3. “Whatever I cannot do for God’s glory must be avoided.”

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4. “It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.”

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5. “True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.”

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6. “Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.”

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7. “God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.”

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8. “The Bible is no lazy man’s book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.”

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9. “Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. Prayer is a confession of creature weakness, yes, of helplessness. Prayer is the acknowledgment of our need and the spreading of it before God.”

— Arthur W. Pink

10. “The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known.”

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11. “Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us.”

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12. “An honest heart loves the Truth.”

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13. “Daily living by faith on Christ is what makes the difference between the sickly and the healthy Christian, between the defeated and the victorious saint.”

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14. “Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.”

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15. “The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.”

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16. “The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.”

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17. “Real prayer is communion with God.”

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18. “Growing in grace is a deepening realization of our nothingness; it is a heartfelt recognition that we are not worthy of the least of God’s mercies.”

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19. “Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.”

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20. “Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.”

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21. “But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.”

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22. “A ‘god’ who’s will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.”

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23. “When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.”

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24. “No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.”

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25. “Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.”

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26. “An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.”

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27. “After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.”

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28. “The demands of justice must be met; the requirements of God’s holiness must be satisfied; the awful debt we incurred must be paid. And on the Cross this was done; done by none less than the Son of God; done perfectly; done once for all. “It is finished.”

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29. “He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.”

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30. “To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a ‘silver lining’ but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!”

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31. “Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.”

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32. “Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word.”

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33. “Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.”

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34. “To argue that God is “trying His best” to save all mankind, but that the majority of men will not let Him save them, is to insist that the will of the Creator is impotent, and that the will of the creature is omnipotent.”

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35. “Just as the sinner’s despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer’s growth in grace.”

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36. “Here then is a sure resting-place for the heart. Our lives are neither the product of blind fate nor the result of capricious chance, but every detail of them was ordained from all eternity, and is now ordered by the living and reigning God. Not a hair of our heads can be touched without His permission.”

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37. “It is finished.” Reader, do you believe it? Or are you trying to add something of our own to the finished work of Christ to secure the favor of God?”

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38. “Faithful people have always been in a marked minority.”

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39. “Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.”

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40. “A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God’s sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency.”

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41. “How different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom! The conception of Deity which prevails most widely today, even among those who profess to give heed to the Scriptures, is a miserable caricature, a blasphemous travesty of the Truth. The God of the twentieth century is a helpless, effeminate being who commands the respect of no really thoughtful man.”

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42. “When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.”

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43. “In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.”

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44. “Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.”

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45. “God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.”

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46. “If I have never mourned over my waywardness, then I have no solid ground for rejoicing.”

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47. “The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.”

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48. “Ours is peculiarly an age of irreverence, and as the consequence, the spirit of lawlessness, which brooks no restraint and which is desirous of casting off everything which interferes with the free course of self-will, is rapidly engulfing the earth like some giant tidal.”

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49. “Prayer is not intended to change God’s purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.”

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50. “The Christian life is a life that consists of following Jesus.”

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