Since God is the cause of all the good in His creatures, then all this good must exist even more abundantly in Him.” — George Swinnock, The Blessed and Boundless God, 17.
The New Testament church didn’t do its evangelism in its worship services. — Sinclair Ferguson
“True faith is faith even in the least degree of it.” — Richard Sibbes A hypocrite would do ill, and not good, if it were in his choice. The good that he does is… for reputation, or conformity with the times, to cover his designs under formality of religion; that he may not be known outwardly, as he is inwardly, an atheist and a hypocrite. Sibbes “… neither monarchs, parliaments, senates nor the assembled masses, are ultimate sovereign. To deny total sovereignty to Jesus Christ in every area of life, like all heresy, is an act of revolution against God.” — Joseph Boot
To be a Christian indeed--is to be like to Christ, from whom the name is taken! -Samuel Davies - You will never find true faith unattended by true godliness -C.H. Spurgeon
Christ is much more powerful to save than Adam was to destroy. John Calvin
I have ever found that when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury. —David Brainerd (1718-1747), The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Pg. 196
Christ is the Alpha, the first, the chief, the foremost, the first-born of every creature, the Eternal God. Charles Spurgeon
"This is the world of weeping, but it will pass away." — Charles Spurgeon
Enter into the secret place and His love will overflow into you and out to the world. Be still and know He is there, waiting for you, wanting to bless and fill you with His love, comfort, power, and love. This is where we find the strength to walk and yes, run, through life without fainting, sustained by the God who loves us. Ray Bentley
The excellence of the church does not consist in multitude (numbers) but in purity. —John Calvin
Whatever you learn from the Word, labor to put it in practice. For to him that has shall be given. No wonder they get little insight into the Bible who make no conscience of practicing what they know. — Thomas Boston
A dungeon with Christ, is a throne; and a throne without Christ is a hell. —John Owen, Works 8:35 This world is not our home. We look for the city whose Builder and Maker is God!
"Whenever you are about to do anything in a great hurry, pause and pray." — Charles Spurgeon
Abiding with Christ against the charges of sin is our daily work. It is sometimes more high and pressing, but it is our daily work. —Puritan John Owen, Works 9:363 Abiding with Christ against the charges of sin is our daily work. It is sometimes more high and pressing, but it is our daily work. —Puritan John Owen, Works 9:363 "God puts Adam in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it. There's work before the Fall; it's not work that's a product of the Fall; it's our attitude to work (as something bad and odious) that's a product of the Fall." -Voddie Baucham.
"A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception and a crime in execution." — Charles Spurgeon
No men in the world need help like them that lack the gospel… of all distresses, lack of the gospel cries the loudest for relief. —Puritan John Owen, Works 8:33
A Good Shepherd is not known by how gently he pets the sheep. A Good Shepherd is known by how well he protects them and feeds them. —John MacArthur
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” - C.S. Lewis
“Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.” – Matthew Henry
Nothing alienates the mind more from God than the indulgence of the flesh. —Matthew Henry, Commentary on Job 1:5
"If you and your sins part, Christ and you shall never part." — Charles Spurgeon Why is salvation by faith? To exclude all glorying in the creature. -Thomas Watson - Conversion is not a mere change of human opinion--it is the devotion of the heart to a person. -Archibald Brown -
"Shall I tell you where your sins are? Christ purged them." — Charles Spurgeon
"Many hours are spent with men, how many with your Maker?" — Charles Spurgeon We are really which we are relatively (in our families). Those that are good will be good to their children, and especially do what they can for the good of their souls. —Matthew Henry, Commentary on Job 1:5
“He foresaw my every fall, my every sin, my every backsliding, yet, nevertheless, fixed His heart upon me.” A.W. Pink
The Christian who has stopped repenting has stopped growing. —A.W. Pink
The truly great spirit is always gentle; and because God is so infinitely great, he is, therefore, tender." - Charles Spurgeon
‘Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.’ – John Bunyan on Availing Prayer
"[God] is so pitiful that he loves not to condemn the guilty, but looks with anxious care upon them to see how he can turn away his wrath and restore them to favour. For this reason alone there is remission of sins." - Charles Spurgeon
"“Mercy” is music, and “tender mercy” is the most exquisite form of it, especially to a broken heart." - Charles Spurgeon
"Holiness means love, joy, and peace. It does not mean the absence of suffering." ~ Elisabeth Elliot, A Heart for God
"Forgiveness comes not to us through any merit of ours, present or foreseen; but only through the tender mercy of our God, and the marvellous visit of love which came of it." - Charles Spurgeon
No heart can conceive, much less can tongue express, the conflict that was in the soul of Jesus Christ with the wrath of God, the curse of the law, the pains of hell and death, that stood before him in this work of redemption. —Puritan John Owen, Works 9:576
"Will Christ suffer me to starve, or want, or lack, while he is on his throne?" — Charles Spurgeon
If you’re worshipping a God who never offends you, expects anything out of you, or wants you to change… You’re not worshipping the true and living God, but rather an idol that you formed by your opinions and preferences and just attached Jesus name to it.
"What is the only reliable picture of Jesus we have? The Bible! The only reliable sketch of Jesus is the sketch of His personality and character given to us in the words of the Bible." -Gary Steward.
“They who pervert this passage for the purpose of building up justification by works, deserve most fully to be laughed at even by children.” — John Calvin on Romans 2:13
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day." — Charles Spurgeon
Confidence in God is a most effective security against sin." — Charles Spurgeon "There is no place where you can go where Christ has not been before you." — Charles Spurgeon
Christ is Messiah in Hebrew and Christos in Greek is Messiah in Hebrew
God's goodness is the root of all goodness, and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness. William Tyndale
"Leave Christ out of preaching, and you have taken milk from the children, you have taken the strong meat from the men." — Charles Spurgeon
“The meaning of Scripture is both the surface level of the words of Scripture, but it’s also all the proper or good and necessary consequences or implications of Scripture.” — Dr. Robert Cara
He that serves God uprightly will serve God continually. —Matthew Henry, Commentary on Job 1:5
This is not legalism: “Christ doth not free believers from obedience to the moral law. It is true we are no more under it as a covenant for our justification, but we are, and must still be under it as a rule for our direction.” —Puritan John Flavel, Works 2:271
“Don’t cut corners. Christ-centered preaching produces Christ-centered churches.” ~ Conrad Mbewe
Sinner, thou thinkest that because of thy sins and infirmities I cannot save thy soul, but behold my Son is by me, and upon him I look; and not on thee, and will deal with thee according as I am pleased with him. —John Bunyan, Works 1:258
The covenant of grace is not built upon the faithfulness of a poor fallible, changeable creature, but upon the never-failing faithfulness of an unchangeable God. - George Whitefield
Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. —Jerry Bridges
Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If you’re worshipping a God who never offends you, expects anything out of you, or wants you to change…
You’re not worshipping the true and living God, but rather an idol that you formed by your opinions and preferences and just attached Jesus name to it.
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