Top 65 D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes
#1. In biblical study, it should invariably be the rule that you must start with the whole before you begin to pay attention to the parts.
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#2. Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
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#3. It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.
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#4. Why do you read all the details of divorce cases in the newspapers? ... you are enjoying it. You would not dream of doing these things yourself, but you are doing them by proxy.
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#5. What is meant by this term, 'the heart'? According to the general scriptural usage of the term, the heart means the centre of the personality. It does not merely mean the seat of the affections and the emotions.
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#7. If your preaching of the gospel of God's free grace in Jesus Christ does not provoke the charge from some of antinomianism, you're not preaching the gospel of the free grace of God in Jesus Christ.
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#8. There is nothing more hateful than a man who deliberately tries to play on the surface and superficial emotions of people. I have no interest in that except to denounce it.
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#9. No man can tell what he will feel like tomorrow morning; you do not control that. Our business is to do something about these changing moods and not to allow ourselves to become victims of them.
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#10. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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#11. Like many of my fellow preachers I acknowledge that my best and severest critic is my wife.
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#12. There is nothing to add to that. Any man who has had some glimpse of what it is to preach will inevitably feel that he has never preached. But he will go on trying, hoping that by the grace of God one day he may truly preach.
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#13. When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.
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#15. Mercy and truth are met together', and if I can think of mercy only at the expense of truth and law, it is not true mercy, it is a false understanding of the term.
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#16. The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial.
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#17. To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another.
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#18. I suggest that it really has not worked out like that; and that you are likely to find in the future that God will revive His work in the Church, and that it is those who attend regularly who are the ones who are going to participate most of all in the blessing.
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#20. The world is tremendously busy trying to cover up its nakedness, trying to get back again the glory that has been lost.
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#21. We accept what Scripture teaches as far as our doctrine is concerned; but when it comes to practice, we very often fail to take the Scriptures as our only guide ... Dare I give an obvious illustration? The question of women preaching, and being ordained to the full ministry.
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#22. How easy it is to read the Scriptures and give a kind of nominal assent to the truth and yet never to appropriate what it tells us!
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#23. What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
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#24. In other words a preacher who seems to be detached from the Truth, and who is just saying a number of things which may be very good and true and excellent in themselves, is not a preacher at all.
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#25. this life is a kind of preparatory school for the great life that is awaiting us beyond death and time.
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#26. So there is nothing more vital for us to realize than this very thing: the Christian life, the Christian faith, is not something that we add on to what we have; it is something that is done to us.
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#27. There is a kind of logical sequence in this Sermon. Not only that, there is certainly a spiritual order and sequence. Our Lord does not say these things accidentally; the whole thing is deliberate.
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#28. I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it ... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fulness and in Him alone.
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#29. In a sense the most approachable Person this world has ever seen was the Lord Jesus Christ.
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#30. He specifically said of believers in Him that, 'In my name shall they cast out devils' (Mark 16:17).
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#31. Why are there wars in the world? Why is there this constant international tension? What is the matter with the world? Why war and all the unhappiness and turmoil and discord amongst men? According to this Beatitude, there is only one answer to these questions-sin. Nothing else; just sin.
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#32. Grace is especially associated with men in their sins; mercy is especially associated with men in their misery.
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#33. When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.
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#36. The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.
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#37. If my preaching of this cross is not an offense to the natural man, I am misrepresenting it.
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#39. We tend to have a wrong view of law and to think of it as something that is opposed to grace. But it is not. Law is only opposed to grace in the sense that there was once a covenant of law, and we are now under the covenant of grace.
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#40. Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate kind of Christian life.
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#41. The chief thing is the love of God, the love of souls, a knowledge of the Truth, and the Holy Spirit within you.
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#42. The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.
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#44. A man who is truly Christian, as we have already seen, never objects to being humbled.
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#45. I can learn from the preachers of the past, and should; but I must not be a slavish imitator of them.
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#46. It is a very terrible sermon, this Sermon on the Mount. Be very careful as you read it, and especially when you talk about it. If you criticize this Sermon at any point you are really saying a great deal about yourself.
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#47. Face to face with the
question of life and my personal being, my soul and its eternal destiny.
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#48. There is nothing, surely, which exhorts us more than this Sermon on the Mount to be what we are meant to be, and to live as we are meant to live; to be like Christ by being a complete contrast to everyone who does not belong to Christ.
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#49. We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.
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#50. And if one feels anything in the presence of God save an utter poverty of spirit, it ultimately means that you have never faced Him.
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#51. Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up (or 'Give in') and admit I am God. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him
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#53. The real trouble with the Jews at the time of our Lord was that they stopped at the letter and never arrived at the spirit.
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#54. I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
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#55. There are people who have an almost perfect knowledge of the letter of the Scripture but have never known the message of the Scripture.
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#56. But observe that [Peter] never ceases to be a bold man; he does not become nervous and diffident. No, he does not change in that way. The essential personality remains; and yet he is 'poor in spirit' at the same time.
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#57. We must never look at any sin in our past life in any way except that which leads us to praise God and to magnify His grace in Christ Jesus.
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#58. Meekness is essentially a true view of oneself, expressing itself in attitude and conduct with respect to others. It is therefore two things. It is my attitude towards myself, and it is an expression of that in my relationship to others.
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#60. Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You can leave the world in a physical sense, you can leave the crowd and the people; but there in your lonely cell the spirit of the world may still be with you.
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#61. The Son of God became man that the children of men might become children of God.
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#62. The Christian is confronted by two ways only, and if we are not on the strait and narrow way, we are on the wide and broad way.
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#64. An analysis of Scripture is all right as long as it is in a very subordinate position, and as long as we are careful it does not so grip us, that we become interested only in an objective, intellectual sense. It is a unique Word, and it must not be approached just as any other book is approached.
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#65. that one thing that was absent was fire. There was no zeal, no enthusiasm, no apparent concern for us as members of the congregation. His whole attitude seemed to be detached and academic and formal. Let
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