Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes - Page 2

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the world knows nothing about; but God knows them. So words are not always necessary. When we cannot express our feelings except in wordless groanings, God knows exactly what is happening.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

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.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

What is preaching? Logic on fire! Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire. A true understanding and experience of the Truth must lead to this. I say again that a man who can speak about these things dispassionately has no right whatsoever to be in a pulpit; and should never be allowed to enter one.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

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.

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.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

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.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.

People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

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.

A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.

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.

You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.