For never was any wound healed by a prepared, but unapplied plaster. Nor was it ever known, that a poor deceived, condemned sinner, was actually delivered out of that woeful state, until of God, Christ was made unto him, wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption.
—John Flavel
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 Holy Spirit never leads anyone to disobey the Word of God.
—R. A. Torrey
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
If you will be Christ’s, you must submit to all those means Christ has appointed for the mortification of your corruptions, be they never so hard: rebukes from God, rebukes from men, by afflictions, and by the Word, for the mortification of sin.
—John Flavel
God will shortly put a blessed end to all your troubles, cares, and watchings. The time is coming when your heart will be as you would have it, when you will be discharged of these cares, fears & sorrows and never cry out, Oh my hard, proud, vain & earthly heart anymore.
—John Flavel
I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.
“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”
—R. A. Torrey
All supposed leadings of God should be tested by the Word of God. The Bible is God’s revealed will. Any leading that contradicts the plain teaching of the Bible is certainly not the leading of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does not contradict Himself.
—R. A. Torrey
Everything that is evil is under the judgment of God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
People tell us the Bible is full of things that are impossible to believe. I know of nothing else so impossible to believe as that a holy God should love such individuals as you and me, as the Bible says He does. But as impossible as it is to believe, it is true.
—R. A. Torrey
God himself appears in our midst, and, as Author of this order, would have men recognize him as present in his church ~ Calvin
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
Whatever our sin or trouble is, it should rather drive us to God than from God. Suppose it is true that you have sinned, that you are thus long and sadly deserted, yet it is a false inference that therefore you should be discouraged, as if there were no help for you in your God.
—John Flavel
The testimony of Scripture is the testimony of God. What the Scriptures say is absolutely sure. What the Scriptures say God says.
—R. A. Torrey
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
Your soul shall shortly stand before the face of God and have the immediate emanations and beamings forth of His glory upon it.
—John Flavel
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
It is not enough that we have our times of secret prayer to God alone with Him, we also need to have fellowship with others in prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
For those to whom God is Father, the church may also be Mother ~ Calvin (Institutes 4:1:1)
Do not ask God to show you His will and then open your Bible at random and put your finger upon some text and take it out its connection without any relation to its real meaning and decide the will of God in that way. This is an irreverent and improper use of Scripture.
—R. A. Torrey
It is only a wink, and you shall see God. Your happiness shall not be deferred till the resurrection, but as soon as the body is dead the gracious soul is swallowed up in life (Rom 8:10–11).
—John Flavel
Your body must be refined and cast into a new mold, else that new wine of heavenly glory would break it…. Who would not be willing to die for a full sight and enjoyment of God?
—John Flavel
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
Stop in the midst of the bustle and hurry and temptation of the day for thanksgiving and prayer. A few minutes spent alone with God at midday will go far to keep you calm in the midst of the worries and anxieties of modern life.
—R. A. Torrey
It is important to know the mind of man. It is absolutely essential to know the mind of God. The place to discover the mind of God is the Bible. This is the Book in which God reveals His mind
—R. A. Torrey
A Christian may be drawn to sin, yet he would be glad with all his heart to be rid of sin. It would be more to him than thousands of gold and silver, that he might grieve and offend God no more; He that is under the dominion of sin is loath to leave his lusts….
—John Flavel
… 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
There are some of us who set much store by our morality, our culture, and our refinement; but if we knew how little we weighed in the balances of the eternal and all holy God, we would fall on our knees and cry, “God be merciful to me, a sinner!”
—R. A. Torrey
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