Top 100 Lloyd Jones Quotes
#1. Lloyd-Jones believed the man who is called to preach comes under a sobering humility. He believed that this person is overwhelmed with a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness for such a high and holy task and is often hesitant to move forward to preach for fear of his own inadequacies.
Steven J. Lawson
#2. 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
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#3. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace, wondrous grace. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES
Bob Christopher
#4. Lloyd-Jones once said that he had never written on prayer because of a sense of personal inadequacy in this area.28
Timothy Keller
#5. According to the English scholar Richard Lloyd-Jones, some of the clay tablets deciphered from ancient Sumerian include complaints about the deteriorating writing skills of the young.
Steven Pinker
#6. From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.
Iain H. Murray
#7. People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.
David Lloyd-Jones
#8. She stopped, and he knew she had caught herself, dismayed a what she had been about to reveal. [Nicole Dubois]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#9. The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
David Lloyd-Jones
#10. Twice damned, in truth, and yet by quirk of timing and fate accepted into that society denied to so many others.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#11. A Prayer was like a tickle.Sooner or later God would have to look down to see what was tickling his bum.
Lloyd Jones
#12. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#13. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#14. She reached down, found his hand with hers.
Their fingers tangled, wrists pressed together.
No pulse between them.
Emily Lloyd-Jones
#15. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#16. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#17. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#18. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#19. He wondered how much time he had left before they started saying "you".
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#20. The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.
David Lloyd-Jones
#21. Create a mould, and pour yourself in it. See what you want to be, and be. Don't fear the pain. Pain is good. Pain is price.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#22. The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged, raped and thrown into a Bessemer converter.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#23. First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
David Lloyd-Jones
#25. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#26. perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.
Now look at us.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#27. I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.
David Lloyd-Jones
#28. Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#29. Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#31. Their touch triggered an electric spasm of agony. He felt the gushing warmth of blood on his fingers. [Charles Meredith]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#32. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#33. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#34. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#35. There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
David Lloyd-Jones
#36. Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew of him at all, knew of him only as the Nazarene peasant - the man Jesus. Such was Abraham Lincoln, the tender prophet of the gospel of good will upon earth.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#37. when she realised he was enjoying the cut-glass shrill of silence that followed, she felt a hatred for him so extreme that had it found physical release, he would have dropped to the floor with every bone in his body shattered.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#38. Like many of my fellow preachers I acknowledge that my best and severest critic is my wife.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#40. Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#41. There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.
David Lloyd-Jones
#42. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#43. () Teeth clenched, she heard herself snarl out words in a voice feral in its savagery (...)
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#44. Dreams are nervy things - all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.
Lloyd Jones
#45. Sometimes when you live out here alone, you forget how to treat with people. [Sebastien]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#46. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#47. They say there's as many as four hundred billion stars in our galaxy" he murmured. "And our galaxy's just one in perhaps five hundred billion others. That's about seventy each of you, me and every other human who walks the earth".
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#49. My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#50. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#51. He did not think he was capable of falling in love who was insane, or paranoid, or confused. So where did that leave him?
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#52. The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#53. Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#54. Preaching the Word is the primary task of the Church, the primary task of the leaders of the Church, the people who are set in this position of authority; and we must not allow anything to deflect us from this, however good the cause, however great the need.
David Lloyd-Jones
#55. To love to preach is one thing, to love those to whom we preach quite another.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#56. What protection could she have hoped to offer either of them? She couldn't even protect herself anymore.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#57. If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.
David Lloyd-Jones
#58. All this teaching that repentance does not matter, and that it does not matter whether you have a sense of sin, and whether you realize your need of forgiveness, and that all you have to do is to 'Come to Jesus as you are' is utterly unscriptural. Indeed it is illogical.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
#60. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#61. The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.
David Lloyd-Jones
#62. We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.
David Lloyd-Jones
#64. We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#65. The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#66. I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things ... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#68. When we run from God, we run away from everything that makes us alive and free. We run away from our own happiness. We leave our place where we belong - close to his heart.
Sally Lloyd-Jones
#70. Her beauty was matchless, face so elegantly crafted that she appeared ethereal; unreal. But while nature had clearly bestowed the gift of physical perfection, it had not breathed the warmth of humanity into its creation.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#72. The world is tremendously busy trying to cover up its nakedness, trying to get back again the glory that has been lost.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#73. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#74. Yet she felt no horror at what she had witnessed, no nausea. their lives - and their deaths - had not mattered.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#75. 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!
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#76. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#77. You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#78. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#79. this life is a kind of preparatory school for the great life that is awaiting us beyond death and time.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#80. Five years ago I was in love with you so utterly I thought I might go mad from it.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#81. The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
David Lloyd-Jones
#82. We've been to secretive, perhaps. For long periods in our shared history, that was a necessity born from conflict. But it is not, I am prepared to accept, a style of living compatible with the modern age. It is difficult to maintain trust that way. Even among friends.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#83. The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
#85. It's not as simple as that. There's no change I could make that would stop them recognizing who I am eventually. It's difficult to explain, but they'd know.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#86. He couldn't even remember her name any more. when, he caught himself wondering, had he started to forget?
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#87. She did not know how the figure was, but she knew it was damaged too badly to live.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#88. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#89. The rush of emotion unbalanced him, his initial outrage eclipsed by an all-consuming grief.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#90. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#91. Waves of insanity and corruption seemed to flow from him. She felt buffeted by their swells.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#93. even now, the building raised a conflicting set of emotions in her: memories of pain and loss, but also of healing and discovery.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#94. It felt as if his body poured into a memory of itself, a recognized groove.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#96. (...) Stage fright, if you like. Easier to hide behind a persona than to bare one's soul. I'm really not the monster you think I am. I just wanted to talk to you unencumbered by all this complications, all this ... history. [Jakab]
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#97. Perhaps it was a tacit acknowledgement of her tendency to find danger, to gravitate towards self-destruction, but she'd been terrified of heights all her life.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#98. 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.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#99. God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#100. The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.
David Lloyd-Jones
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