Arthur W. Pink Quotes
Arthur Walkington Pink was born in England in 1886, supposedly a former occultist of the Theosophical Society at first , though a verse his father quoted to him from Proverbs converted him in his 20's; “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death” (Proverbs 16:25/14:12). He attended the Moody Bible Institute in Illinois, in 1910, then pastored First Baptist Church of Garden Grove, CA. In 1913, he went back to the UK, returning to USA in 1915, Pink settled in Kentucky and married Vera Pink (née Russell) in 1916, and pastoring at Albany, Burkesville, and Scottsville. In 1917, they relocated to Northside Baptist Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina until 1920, then in 1922 he preached in CA, starting his monthly magazine, Studies in the Scriptures. Then he lived in Australia between 1925 to 1928, pastoring in Sydney. A.W. Then went back to the UK then to the USA again, and finally dwelling in Stornoway in the Isle of Lewis until Arthur died in 1952 from anemia, and Vera died in 1962.
References
Who was Arthur Pink? | GotQuestions.org
About – The Arthur W. Pink Archive (awpink.org)
A.W. Pink | Reformed Theology at Semper Reformanda
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"The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness."
"Contentment, then, is the product of a heart resting in God. It is the soul’s enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding."
"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."
"Those, then, who declare that a bare believing of the Gospel is all that is needed to ensure heaven for any sinner are "false prophets," liars and deceivers of souls. It also requires to be pointed out that saving faith is not an isolated act but a continuous thing."
"Faithful people have always been a marked minority"
“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.”
“An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam’s descendents.”
“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.”
"Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make up."
“When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.”
“The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.”
"No relaxation unto the duty of holiness is granted by the Gospel, nor any indulgence unto the least sin. The Gospel is no less holy than the Law, for both proceeded from the Holy One."
"It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors."
“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 recesses of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker. No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.”
“No sinner was ever saved by giving his heart to God. We are not saved by our giving—we are saved by God’s giving.”
"The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness."