David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh Protestant minister and medical doctor who was influential in the Calvinist wing of the British evangelical movement in the 20th century.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Do not talk about the love of God until you have realized the enormity of sin and of what you have done against God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The world is as it is today because sin being what it is, and God being what and who he is, it will inevitably be punished.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Thank God for the one who came to set a liberty those who are bruised. In your pain and your agony, cry out to him, and he will give you the relief.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Whether you like it or not, whether you understand it or not, sin is what you are guilty of in the sight of this holy God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If you take your problem to God, leave it with God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We must learn to see God in his holy temple above the flux of history, and above the changing scenes of time.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
My one concern is that my soul should be right.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Who is man that he can stand and look God in the face?
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
What is it that is chiefly worrying us as Christians?
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Not only is the whole course of history known to God, and His purpose for the Church made plain, but what he has decreed will most certainly come to pass.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The world has turned its back on God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The very greatness of God makes it impossible for us by our own efforts ever to arrive at God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
There is certainly nothing that will bring greater comfort and consolation to the believer than to understand the nature of prophecy.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Everything that is evil is under the judgment of God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It is a great comfort to know that these might prophets of God We’re but men like ourselves and subject to the same frailties as ourselves.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Is the world in trouble or not?
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The devil thought he was defeating Christ, but Christ was reconciling us to God, defeating the devil and delivering us out of his clutches.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If we are not more than conquerors we are failing as Christians.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If you told God on your knees that you had reached an impasse, and that you could not solve your problem, and that you were handing it over to Him, then leave it with Him.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If I, like some people, believed that the success and the future of the Christian Church was dependent upon human ability and power and organization, if I believed that organized campaigns and so on were really going to solve the problem, I would be entirely hopeless.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
If we are not more concerned for the purity of the Church than with the fact that we are faced by the possibility of another war, that is a serious reflection upon our Christianity.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Looking to God means not dealing with a problem yourself, not consulting other people, but depending entirely upon God, and ‘waiting’ only upon Him.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Son Of God became man in order that He might be our perfect High Priest and be able to lead us to God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Why is the world at it is, and why are we ever guilty of sin? It is because we do not realize the holy character of God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
God’s will is certain.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones