Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes about Joy

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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.

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.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Joy, Soul, Asking

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.21, Zondervan

You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christian, Real, Joy

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy; the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christian, Joy, Serious

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Christian, Ideas, Joy

Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes about Joy

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