According to the website GotQuestions.org: “Arthur Walkington Pink was a pastor, theologian, and author. He was born in Nottingham, England, in 1886. He became entangled in the occult as a young man and joined a local gathering of the then-popular Theosophical Society. However, a verse his father quoted to him from the book of Proverbs led to his conversion: “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end, it leads to death” (Proverbs 16:25).”1
A. W. Pink spent many years as a pastor, began a monthly magazine, Studies in Scripture, which ran for over 30 years, and authored many Christian books. Pink was not particularly renowned during his lifetime, but after his death, like many an artist, his writings have become very popular among pastors and teachers. Below is a sampling of Pink’s insightful spiritual quotes that I pray will bless you.2
“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.”
“True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.”
“Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God’s majesty.”
“In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us and hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.”
“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.”
“An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.”
“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.”
“We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.”
“Chastisement is designed for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the All-wise hand that wields it!”
“He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding; yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.”
“Deny that the Bible is, without any qualifications, the very Word of God, and you are left without any ultimate standard of measurement and without any supreme authority. Grant that the Bible is a Divine revelation and communication of God’s own mind and will to men, and you have a fixed starting point from which an advance can be made into the domain of truth.”
“Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding. It is the outcome of my will being brought into subjection to the Divine will. It is the blessed assurance that God does all things well, and is, even now, making all things work together for my ultimate good.”
“Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.”
“Christ is the Divine answer to the Devil’s overthrow of our first parents.”
“Though poor in this world’s goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.”
“Taking up my ‘cross’ means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.”
“God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.”
“An honest heart loves the Truth.”
“Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.”
1 Who was Arthur Pink? | GotQuestions.org
2 All the following quotes are from the websites below:
Inspirational Quotes by A.W. Pink
Arthur W. Pink Quotes (Author of The Sovereignty of God)