Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

Joy is a sure sign of the presence of God in your life.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

Wherever there are men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, there you find joy.

When you see Jesus as your Treasure, the Spirit has blown through your heart.

God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, "Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?

We have God's joy in our blood.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.

When we no longer seek God for His blessings, we have time to seek Him for Himself.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Communion with Christ gives us our strength, our joy, and our love.

There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.

There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.