Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

A lot of Mexican Catholic dogma, the way it's taught, it's about existing in a state of grace, which I found impossible to reconcile with the much darker view of the world and myself, even as a child.

Why is it Christians are more confident in the Devil taking me more than Christ keeping me.

I'm the dirtiest of the dirty. I mess up all the time. I suck as a Christian. I can't stand religion. But I love Jesus, and I'm trying.

Too many times we think we've fallen too far from God or we're not worthy.

I know I'm a sinner.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.

Apart from the cross, condemnation is normal. Without Jesus, we all deserve to be condemned and punished for sin. But here's the good news: 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus'.

Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.

We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

I don't know if I ever really bought into the eternal damnation bit.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.