The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. Martyn Lloyd-Jones More Quotes by Martyn Lloyd-Jones More Quotes From Martyn Lloyd-Jones 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. Martyn Lloyd-Jones who-god-is done goes-on The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks. Martyn Lloyd-Jones spiritual listening fall You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective. Martyn Lloyd-Jones holy preparation spirit All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures. Martyn Lloyd-Jones scripture light teaching 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. Martyn Lloyd-Jones church leader people There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained. Martyn Lloyd-Jones christian joy ideas Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus. Martyn Lloyd-Jones men heaven jesus People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan. Martyn Lloyd-Jones satan people thinking Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it. Martyn Lloyd-Jones scripture practice believe 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. Martyn Lloyd-Jones life-and-death destiny men If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin. Martyn Lloyd-Jones forgiven sin doubt We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God. Martyn Lloyd-Jones organization christian thinking 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 right to assume. Martyn Lloyd-Jones real christian joy Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may. Martyn Lloyd-Jones refusal panic may 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. Martyn Lloyd-Jones endurance patient men There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself. Martyn Lloyd-Jones holy real spirit ...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again. Martyn Lloyd-Jones humility teaching order What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence. Martyn Lloyd-Jones giving men thinking People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. Martyn Lloyd-Jones unhappy christian people Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself. Martyn Lloyd-Jones forever trying men
