“God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.”
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
“Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.”
“Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.”
“Humility is not simply feeling small and useless – like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.”
“Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.”
“The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.”
“The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one’s knees. The mode of theology is repentance.”
“We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.”
“Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.”
“Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.”
“Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.”
“Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.”
“Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.”
“The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.”
“How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.”
“The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.”
“The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.”
“My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.”
“The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.”
“The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.”
“Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.”
“Worship is not something we “work up,” it is something that “comes down” to us, from the character of God.”
“We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.”
“Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.”
“God made everything else but man “after its kind”? – that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God – in created, human form.”
“The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israel.”
“God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.”
“Man’s insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.”
“When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.”
“Secular humanism debases the human.”
“Don’t tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday’s to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer.”
“The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.”
“Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.”
“Contentment is an undervalued grace.”
“You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ.”
“God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.”
“True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!”
“The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.”
“You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.”
“Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.”
“In the New Testament the basic command of old covenant life, ‘Be holy as I am holy’, now means, ‘Become like Jesus.’ God involves himself in this work as the triune Lord: the Father commands it; the Son has died to provide the resources for it; the Spirit indwells us in order to effect it in our lives. As Augustine famously prayed, God commands what he wills and gives what he commands.”
“We best defend the Lord’s glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.”
“Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?”
“If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life of absolute sin-less-ness – if you desire anything less, you are fighting against God’s desire for you.”
“If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.”
“The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.”
“There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.”
“Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.”
“Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.”
“The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don’t separate me from the conviction that God is love.”
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