Martyn Lloyd-Jones
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.Collection: War
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.Collection: War
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!
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
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.Collection: Joy
It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Bible
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Change
The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.Collection: Faith
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."Collection: Christian
Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.Collection: Men
If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.Collection: Mean
Faith is the refusal to panic.Collection: Faith
Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?Collection: Talking
The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? ... Is their life centered on Him? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Church
The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.Collection: Church
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.Collection: Christian
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Done
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.Collection: Prayer
If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.Collection: Christian
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.Collection: One Thing
Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.Collection: People
You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".Collection: Christian
There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.Collection: Christian
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?Collection: Depressing
The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.Collection: Grace
Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.Collection: Conviction
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.Collection: Men
Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.Collection: Christian
The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.Collection: Our Lives
All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.Collection: Teaching
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.Collection: Finals
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.Collection: Inspiration
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.Collection: Men
Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.Collection: Believe
The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Giving Up
The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.Collection: Men
Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.Collection: May
The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.Collection: Men
If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.Collection: Doubt
People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.Collection: Thinking
Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Destiny