MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

The Bible does not isolate war, as if it were something separate and unique and quite apart, as we tend to do in our thinking. It is but one of the manifestations of sin, one of the consequences of sin.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.

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.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

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

A revival means days of heaven upon earth.

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

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."

Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

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.

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

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

The church is always to be under the Word; she must be; we must keep her there. You must not assume that because the church started correctly, she will continue so. She did not do so in the New Testament times; she has not done so since. Without being constantly reformed by the Word the church becomes something very different.