Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: 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 […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Sorrow and Joy (Lloyd-Jones)John Piper, Preaching the Cross: Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.
Read More Today’s Quote – Sin (Piper)John Owen, The Mortification of Sin: Lust of the flesh (Rom. 7) will darken the mind, extinguish convictions, dethrone reason, interrupt the power and influence of any considerations that may be brought to hamper it, and through all break into a flame.
Read More Today’s Quote – Flesh (Owen)A. W. Tozer, The Knoweldge of the Holy: Sin has many manifestations but its essence is one. A moral being, created to worship before the throne of God, sits on the throne of his own selfhood and from that elevated position declares, “I AM.” that is sin in its concentrated essence; yet because it is […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Sin (Tozer)Sinclair Ferguson, The Grace of Repentance: Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
Read More Today’s Quote – Depravity (Ferguson)Iain Murray, Evangelicalism Divided: Worldliness is departing from God. It is a man-centered way of thinking. It proposes objectives which demand no radical breach with man’s fallen nature. It judges the importance of things by the present and material results. It weighs success by numbers. Worldliness covets human esteem and wants no unpopularity. It knows […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Worldliness (Murray)George Whitfield: A sense of my actual sins and natural deformity humbled me exceedingly; and then the freeness and riches of God’s everlasting love broke in with such light and power upon my soul, that I was often awed into silence and could not speak!
Read More Today’s Quote – Sin and Grace (Whitfield)Blaise Pascal, Pensées: There are only two kinds of men: the righteous, who believe themselves sinners; the rest, sinners who believe themselves righteous. (HT: CQOD)
Read More Today’s Quote – Sin (Pascal)Horatius Bonar, The Everlasting Righteousness: [The spiritual life] is ‘believing’ from first to last. We begin, we go on, we end in faith. The faith that justifies is the faith that overcomes (1 John 5:4). By faith we obtain the ‘good report’ both with God and man. By faith we receive forgiveness; by faith we […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Faith (Bonar)A. J. Gossip, In the Secret Place of the Most High: After Calvary, God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable. (HT: CQOD)
Read More Today’s Quote – Resurrection (Gossip)A. W. Pink, The Attributes of God: [The sovereignty of God is] the exercise of His supremacy.…God does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases. None can thwart Him, none can hinder Him. Divine sovereignty means that God is God in fact, as well as in name, that He is on […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Sovereignty (Pink)Kent Hughes, John: That You May Believe: Muggeridge beautifully says, “Christianity, from Golgotha onwards, has been the sanctification of failure.” Peter, the great rock, rose from the rock heap of failure. Our failures bring us face to face with the weaknesses and inadequacies that lie within, so that God’s strength can be made perfect in […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Sanctification (Hughes)John MacArthur, The Pillars of Christian Character: “Spiritual strength for believers is essentially an attitude of courage, and it includes such virtues as courage of conviction, courage to be uncompromising, courage to confront error and false doctrine, and courage to face intimidation and persecution and still remain true to what is right. A strong Christian […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Strength (MacArthur)J. I. Packer, Knowing God: Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting Him, but the width of our knoweldge […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Knowing God (Packer)C. J. Mahaney, Humility: True Greatness: Those who know true joy in the midst of suffering are those who recognize that, in this life, our suffering is never as great or as serious as our sins. As Jonathan Edwards wrote, “How far less [are] the greatest afflictions that we meet with in this world…than we […]
Read More Today’s Quote – Suffering (Mahaney)
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