"[…]you have the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Friend, your Divine Companion; you are going to sit and feast with him presently at his own table." - Charles Spurgeon''
“But over all the actions and events of our lives, God is in control doing as He pleases—not apart from those events, or in spite of them, but through them.” —Jerry Bridges
That wisdom which cannot teach me that God is love shall ever pass for folly. - John Owen
It is not enough that we believe, we must not be ashamed to own it. —
Robert Traill, Works 2:67
"Love is the energy of life."-Robert Browning
You may argue that your watching the filth of the world doesn’t affect your relationship with God. I doubt that. But think about this: What effect is it having upon your children? '
Chuck Smith
"How gloriously has Christ rolled away the great load of human sin, adequately recompensed the claims of divine justice, and magnified the law, and made it honorable!" -
Charles Spurgeon
If you have prayed earnestly or you think a great while and have gone through great discouragement in it, yet pray still. Let the discouragement be what it will.
"It ought to fill us with delight to know that we are loved of the Lord, with an everlasting and infinite love, even as Jesus Christ is loved." - Charles Spurgeon
When God threatens the unbeliever with everlasting destruction for his sin in the law, every secure sinner says, God is a liar. —Robert Traill, Works 2:68
There is a happy tension between the divine & human in Pauline theology, but as always the order—the work of the Spirit, followed by their belief in the truth [2 Thes 2:13]—says it all in terms of Paul's own theological emphases. -Gordon Fee
God’s best have often suffered the worst this world has to offer.
Larry Osbourne
"What greater joy can a man have than to feel that he is pleasing Christ?" - Charles Spurgeon
Remember this when God is doing something new… There is always a tearing and pain in following the Lord in a new direction.
It is impossible that anyone should, in a due manner, believe forgiveness in God, unless in a due manner, he is convinced of sin in himself. If the fallow ground is not broken up, it is to no purpose to sow the seed of the gospel. —John Owen, Works 6:511
Do not assign a position to an opponent that they will not own. Always put their argument in the best light.
"If you continue, day by day, to walk with God carefully and prayerfully, and to abide in Christ continually, he will look upon you with eyes of satisfaction and delight[…]" - Charles Spurgeon
Our forgiving of others will not procure forgiveness for ourselves, but not forgiving others proves that we ourselves are not forgiven. —John Owen, Works 6:497
5 Dangers For Young Men 1. Pride 2. Love of Pleasure 3. Thoughtlessness 4. Contempt of Religion 5. Fear of Man’s Opinion
"But when our Lord Jesus Christ sees us doing much for God, he is pleased with us, as the gardener is when having planted a tree, and dug about it, and manured it, and pruned it, he sees it at last covered with golden fruit." - Charles Spurgeon
Habitual sin: 1. Saps our joy 2. Obstructs our fellowship with God 3. Dishonors/grieves God 4. Robs us of assurance before God 5. Tramples on the grace of God 6. Hinders our usefulness for God 7. Deprives us of rewards promised by God Sin is never worth what it takes away.
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