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. – John Nelson Darby
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too… Hold fast to Christ. – John Nelson Darby
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth. – John Nelson Darby
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God’s church. – 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
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
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. – 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
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
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards. – 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
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
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. – 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
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
During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. – John Nelson Darby
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect. – John Nelson Darby
