Top 100 John Macarthur Quotes
#1. God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 - John MacArthur
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#2. Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women
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#5. Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!
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#6. 18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
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#7. In thought and practice we are far from holy, but in the new nature we are perfectly holy: "In Him [we] have been made complete" (Col. 2:10).
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#8. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.
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#9. We allow our daily concerns to turn into worry and therefore sin when our thoughts become focused on changing the future instead of doing our best to handle our present circumstances.
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#10. If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace.
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#11. Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6).
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#12. 4Behold, as for the aproud one, His soul is not right within him; But the brighteous will live by his 1faith.
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#13. 18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
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#14. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.
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#15. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).
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#16. Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
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#17. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.
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#18. We confess that our best service is altogether unprofitable, and when we have rendered our best obedience, we are still merely unworthy slaves who have done no more than that which we ought to do.
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#19. Jesus gave us, His children, three reasons for not worrying about this life: It is unnecessary because of our Father, it is uncharacteristic because of our faith, and it is unwise because of our future.
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#20. God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21
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#21. The Lord accomplishes great things through weak people ... What is required of His people is an obedient spirit, not a roster of tremendous gifts and abilities.
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#23. 11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
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#24. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
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#25. I would never want to be president because the power to bring righteousness to this country does not now and will never reside in public office.
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#26. Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.a
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#27. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning, published by the MIT Press, present findings from current research on how young people learn, play, socialize, and participate in civic life.
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#28. While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.
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#30. When Christ said to "pray, then, in this way," He didn't mean to pray with His exact words.
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#31. The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.
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#32. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
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#33. false promises of an easy life or indulgence of sins. But in good times, the cost does not seem so high, and people take the name of Christ without undergoing the radical transformation of life that true conversion implies.
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#36. When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.
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#37. If Jesus expresses loving concern for the smallest of our troubles, certainly in His role as the perfect sufferer He cares for our greatest traumas.
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#38. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man's true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. ...
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#39. Moral freedom now reigns. Materialism and the breakdown of the family are epidemic. Abortions, sexual evils, drugs, and crime are rampant.
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#40. How His electing grace and predestined purpose can stand beside His love for the world and desire that the gospel be preached to all people, still holding them responsible for their own rejection and condemnation, is a divine mystery.
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#41. Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an affirmation of His sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and an exercise to conform your desires and purposes to His will and Glory
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#43. Often it is those who preach "tolerance," "nonjudgmentalism," and "intellectualism" who are most intolerant.
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#44. And did not believe in His wondrous works. 33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
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#46. the ultimate purpose of our salvation is to glorify God and to bring us into intimate, rich fellowship with Him,
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#47. The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence.
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#48. Being assured of our salvation is no arrogant stoutness. It is faith. It is not presumption. Rather it is confidence in God's promise.
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#49. For joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones; Praise is bbecoming to the upright.
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#50. The story of Lazarus not only demonstrates Christ's divine power over death (both physical and spiritual); it also demonstrates the converse theological truth
namely, that the dead cannot raise themselves.
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#53. On the flip side, those who profess salvation but later fall away, demonstrate that their profession was never genuine (1 John 2:19).
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#54. The only right response to Christ's lordship is wholehearted submission, loving obedience, and passionate worship.
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#55. Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.
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#57. Sin is the monarch that rules the heart of every man. It is the first lord of the soul, and its virus has contaminated every living being.
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#58. Because ours is such a free and prosperous society, it is easier for Christians to feel secure by presuming on instead of depending on God's grace. To many believers become satisfied with physical blessings and have little desire for spiritual blessings.
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#59. Finally, by making activism our priority, we fashion a reputation as rabble-rousing malcontents and foster hostility toward unbelievers that alienates us from them, and them from us. We need to let go of the notion that culture and
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#60. A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.
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#63. Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom.
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#64. Rather than walking in the flesh, they now "walk by the Spirit" (v. 25), being characterized by a growing desire to obey the Word of God.
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#65. Instant destruction would be fitting every time anyone sinned, if that were how God chose to deal with us. But, thankfully, it ordinarily is not. "His tender mercies are over all His works" (Psalm 145:9).
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#66. Rather than demanding our rights and creating for ourselves a world where we feel safe and accepted, we need to see the deep spiritual needs of the world and concern ourselves with offering people hope through Jesus Christ. That's what being a living sacrifice is all about. Third,
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#67. To "pray without ceasing" basically refers to recurring prayer, not nonstop talking. Thus it is to be our way of life - we're to be continually in an attitude of prayer.
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#68. We should give our children the impression that the most wonderful thing in the world is Christianity; and that there is nothing in life comparable to being a Christian.4 MARTYN-LLOYD JONES
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#69. We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!
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#70. Like the saints of old, we no longer chase after the passing pleasures of this world.34 Instead, our eyes are fixed on heaven, our true home, the place where Christ is.
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#72. The fact is that far too many professing Christians live their lives, day in and day out, on the basis of something other than the Bible.
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#73. When I pray, "Your kingdom come," I am saying to God's Holy Spirit, "Spirit of Christ within me, take control and do what You will for Your glory." A true child of God won't be preoccupied with his own plans and desires but with the determinate program of God, revealed in the person of Jesus Christ.
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#74. God's wisdom is like the rainbow, in symmetry, beauty, and variety. He does not paint scenes merely in black and white, but uses a riot of colour from the heavenly palette in order to show the wonder of His wise dealings with His people. - Sinclair Ferguson
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#75. Exposition presupposes an exegetical process to extract the God-intended meaning of Scripture and an explanation of that meaning in a contemporary way.
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#76. Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.
(From Slave)
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#77. Our lives must reflect a continual commitment to the constant exercise of prayer. All that you learn about God should drive you into His presence. Make that your goal as you take every aspect of your life to Him in prayer.
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#79. Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it's to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do not have a moral agenda; we have a redemptive agenda. We can't reform the kingdom of darkness that Satan rules.
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#80. God's greatest desire, and our greatest need, is to be in constant fellowship with Him now, and
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#81. 7Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): 8Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches - Feed me with the food allotted to me; 9Lest I be full and deny You, And say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God.
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#82. The gospels do not relate the story of a misunderstood ethical teacher, a failed social revolutionary, a model of selfless humility, or even a heroic martyr; they reveal the Savior who is God incarnate, the "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).
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#83. Jesus was always angered when the Father was maligned or when others were mistreated, but He was never selfishly angry at what was done against Him. That is the measure of righteous anger.
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#84. But the day of our death will be better than the day of our birth, because the first time we were born into sin. But when we die, we will awaken into the glorious presence of Christ (cf. 2 Cor. 5:8).
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#85. Guilt is a spiritual pain in the soul that tells us something is evil and needs to be confronted and cleansed. To
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#86. When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.
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#87. Prayer begins and ends not with the needs of man but with the glory of God (John 14:13). It should be concerned primarily with who God is, what He wants, and how He can be glorified.
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#88. J. I. Packer has written, "The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives."17
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#90. The real challenge of Christian living is not to eliminate every uncomfortable circumstance from our lives, but to trust our sovereign, wise, good, and powerful God in the midst of every situation.
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#91. 12aNow, Israel, what does the LORD your God require from you, but to 1fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and blove Him, and to serve the LORD your God with call your heart and with all your soul,
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#92. 43There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.
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#93. Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.
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#94. Prayer that focuses on self is always hypocritical because every true prayer focuses on God.
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#95. The real key to accepting and enduring a particular trial or persecution, or to persevering victoriously through a certain period of suffering, is discipleship.
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#96. 14For the earth will be afilled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.
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#97. Obedience is the basic definition of worship. Like obedience, worship is to be a way of life rather than just an exercise on Sunday.
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#98. A dozen men under the power of the Holy Spirit are a more potent force than the teeming masses whose initial enthusiasm for Jesus was apparently provoked by little more than sheer curiosity.
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#99. 8Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You.
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#100. And how can one be a slave and not a slave? When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.
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