Arthur W. Pink Quotes

“One often hears it stated (usually by someone with a surface knowledge of Pink) that he was an odd character, or that he was an isolationist, or that he had difficulty getting along with others. The danger is that someone might use this to destroy Pink's influence. The impression is left that such a man could not be worthy of our attention, or that he would have nothing to say that would be of interest or benefit to one who is serious about the service of God and the reaching of a lost world with the gospel of Christ. We must remember that whatever Pink's failures might have been, which as we have seen were many, and which he admitted were many also, it cannot be denied, as one reads his writings extensively, that he had a heart for God and sought to live and write for the glory of God supremely. His writings are warm and powerful, rich and God-centered, practical and uplifting, and spiritually moving.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“For many years past, this writer and his wife have been unable to conscientiously celebrate the Lord's supper; yet (by grace) we do so in spirit, by remembering the Lord's death for His people in our hearts and minds. "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together: (Heb. 10:25) is very far from meaning the sheep of Christ should attend a place where the goats predominate, or where their presence would sanction what is dishonoring to their Master.12”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“He spoke to young Christians when he said: If you cannot find a place where Christ is magnified, where His presence is felt, where the Word is ministered in the power of the Spirit, where your soul is actually fed—then it is far better to remain at home and spend the time on your knees, feeding directly from God's Word, and reading that which you do find helpful in your spiritual life.9”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Could it be also that Pink was lacking in love and grace and mercy towards the churches and pastors of his day, in an hour when he could have shown them the truth by preaching and teaching them with a spirit of love and grace and mercy?”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“In connection with what is styled "Divine worship" today, the great majority of professing Christians follow the dictates of their own wisdom, or inclinations of their fleshly lusts, rather than Holy Scripture. Others mechanically follow the traditions of their fathers, or the requirements of popular custom. The result is that the Holy Spirit is grieved and quenched by the worldly inventions of carnal men, and Christ is outside the whole thing. Far better not to worship God at all, than to mock Him with human "will worship" (Col. 2:23). Far better to worship Him Scripturally in seclusion of our homes, than fellowship with the abominable mockery that is now going on in almost all the so-called "churches."10”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“He had written rather scathingly the following critique of local churches, while he was yet in Australia: "Be ye not unequally yoked together." This applies, first to our religious or ecclesiastical connections. How many Christians are members of so-called "churches," where much is going on which they know is at direct variance with the Word of God— either the teaching from the Pulpit, the wordily attractions used to draw the ungodly, and the worldly methods employed to finance it, or the constant receiving into its membership of those who give no evidence of having been born again. Believers in Christ, who remain in such "churches" (?) are dishonouring their Lord, should they answer: "Practically all the churches are the same, and were we to resign what could we do? We must go somewhere on Sundays." Such language would show they are putting their own interests before the glory of Christ. Better stay at home and read God's Word, than fellowship with that which His Word condemns.8”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Despondency and despair are never excusable in the Christian, and must be steadily resisted. We need to make up our minds that if by grace we are determined to follow the example which Christ has left us, we shall have enemies—especially in the religious world—who will scruple at no misrepresentations of our motive and actions. We must learn to undervalue our reputations and be content to be regarded as "the offscourings of all things:" we must seek grace to emulate Him who "set His face like a flint:" (Isa. 50:7), who "endured the cross, despising the shame." (Heb. 12:2) Unless we cultivate His spirit we shall be at a great disadvantage, when sufferings come upon us.33”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“There are two great basic truths which run through Scripture, and are enforced on every page: that God is sovereign, and that man is a responsible creature; and it is only as the balance of truth is preserved between these two, that we are delivered from error. The Divine sovereignty should not be pressed to the exclusion of human responsibility, nor must human responsibility be so stressed that God's sovereignty is either ignored or denied.15”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Pink was convinced that the Bible taught that the gospel must be offered to all men, and that all men had the responsibility (though not the ability) to accept the gospel by faith.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Whenever there is any begging (directly or indirectly) for money or gifts, it is a certain sign that the one begging is not in the will of God, and is working in the energy of the flesh. And we would earnestly exhort every Christian to have no fellowship with such a work. No, we have no need to ask for a cent from any one.20”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“But it is our aim not to tickle the ear, but to search the conscience; not to pander unto the sensational-monger, but to feed Christ's hungry sheep; not to please empty professors, but to make God's children more and more out of love with themselves.15”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Theologically, from the very beginning of his Christian life, he was a Calvinist. This was the doctrinal conviction, no doubt of his home church in Nottingham. Pink does show a change in the basic framework of his theology in the passing of time (from dispensationalism to Reformed theology), but there is no evidence of any change in the matter of his Calvinistic convictions.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Some of the denominations require him [the ministerial student] to spend years at a university in order to obtain a degree, and there his time and energies are strenuously occupied with subjects that contain nothing whatever for the soul, but only that which is apt to foster intellectual conceit.21”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Your first duty is to humbly and diligently look to Him, wait on him for guidance, seek His will, and the sure promise is "The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way" (Psalms 25:9).16”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Pink continues in this same context, using Paul and then Spurgeon as examples of much used but untrained men: It was the same with the apostle Paul. Hear him as he says to the Galatians, "But I certify, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ: (1:11-12).”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Pink's involvement in this intellectually alluring. but spiritually deadening movement, deeply troubled his father. During one week in 1908, Pink was scheduled to speak at an important gathering of the Society. He was to lecture once early in the week, and then again later in the week. The meeting seems to have been in his home town of Nottingham, but we cannot be certain of that. But when Pink returned home from his first teaching assignment at the Theosophy Society meetings, he was faced by his father's quotation of Proverbs 14:12. That verse says, "There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Evidently this portion of the Word of God shook Pink deeply and sent him into seclusion to his room for the remainder of most of the week. He says he stayed there without food, until he finally came downstairs to go preach the gospel at the Friday meeting of the society. One can hardly imagine the pandemonium his actions brought to the society that day. This action sets forth another of Pink's characteristics—a frankness and boldness to speak his convictions without fear or favor, regardless of the situation.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“As one writer comments: Mr. Pink's view of the Scriptures, of doctrine and of Christian practice was not the view of many of his contemporary evangelicals. Few men have traveled so widely and yet remained so uninfluenced by prevailing opinions and accepted customs. Independent Bible study convinced him that much of modern evangelism was defective at its foundation; when Puritan and Reformed books were being thrown out, he advanced the majority of their principles with untiring zeal.13 Another writer says that Pink has become more popular today because of the awakening of an interest in the truths he so faithfully presented in his writings.14 That statement certainly has a measure of truth to it, but one also wonders how much Arthur W. Pink was responsible for the above mentioned awakening of interest in these old truths of the past. The present writer has on file numerous letters from pastors, who attribute their theological journey from Arminian theology to Calvinistic theology to A. W. Pink and his influence upon them. These letters are small in number to those who have encountered Biblical truth in a personal way by the means of Pink's writings.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write

“Part of the reason for the lack of appreciation in his own day was that he was theologically out of step with his own times. Though Baptists (Pink's denominational preference) found their roots in Calvinistic theology, there came a time in their history, when they left this doctrinal foundation to a great extent, in order to embrace a more Arminian theology, or as some called it, more of a synthesis of Calvinism and Arminianism.”
― Richard P. Belcher, Arthur W. Pink: Born to Write