Top 50 David Lloyd-Jones Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Faith is the refusal to panic.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

2. “Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”

— David Lloyd-Jones

3. “The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

4. “A revival means days of heaven upon earth.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

5. “Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

7. “You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either “dead” or “alive”; you are either “born” or “not born”.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

8. “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.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

9. “There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man’s faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

10. “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.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

11. “The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

12. “There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

13. “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.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

14. “The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

15. “The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

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

— David Lloyd-Jones

17. “The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

18. “The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

19. “Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

20. “The devil’s one object is so to depress God’s people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God’s people. Do you want to be like that?”

— David Lloyd-Jones

21. “Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

22. “The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

23. “Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

24. “The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

25. “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.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

26. “Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

27. “We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

28. “If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

29. “Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

30. “The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

31. “We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

32. “To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be “in Christ,” it is for Christ to be in us.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

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

— David Lloyd-Jones

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

— David Lloyd-Jones

35. “What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

36. “Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

37. “The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

38. “The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

39. “The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

40. “If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

41. “The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

42. “To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

43. “Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

44. “All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

45. “There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

46. “You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

47. “There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

48. “People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.”

— David Lloyd-Jones

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

— David Lloyd-Jones

50. “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.”

— David Lloyd-Jones