John Nelson Darby Quotes

God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.

If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death, man's hatred, God's desertion, and Satan's power ; we find Him there at the cost of everything. Everything that was against us was done away. By one man's obedience many are made righteous.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

Let those who like society better have it.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.