John Nelson Darby Quotes

• To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.

  John Nelson Darby

• 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.

  John Nelson Darby

• The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

  John Nelson Darby

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

  John Nelson Darby

• The presence of the Holy Spirit is the keystone of all our hopes.

  John Nelson Darby

• The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.

  John Nelson Darby

• The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

  John Nelson Darby

• 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.

  John Nelson Darby

• Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

  John Nelson Darby

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

  John Nelson Darby

• Nationalism – in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies – consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

  John Nelson Darby

• Let those who like society better have it.

  John Nelson Darby

• Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.

  John Nelson Darby

• 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.

  John Nelson Darby

• If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.

  John Nelson Darby

• I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God’s children.

  John Nelson Darby

• I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.

  John Nelson Darby

• I had always owned them to be the Word of God… the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.

  John Nelson Darby

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  I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

   

  John Nelson Darby

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

  John Nelson Darby

John Nelson Darby (29)

Birth:	18th November, 1800
Death:	29th April, 1882
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Pastor, Teacher, Translator

About

John Nelson Darby was born in London, England. He was an English pastor, teacher and translator. He is considered to be the father of modern Dispensationalism and Futurism. He produced translations of the Bible in German "Elberfelder Bibel", French "Pau" Bible, Dutch New Testament, and English based on the Hebrew and Greek texts called The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he graduated Classical Gold Medallist in 1819. In 1825, he was ordained deacon of the established Church of Ireland and the following year as priest. He wrote several books include: On the Greek article, Darby Bible, Synopsis of the Books of the Bible, and The Man of Sorrows.

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