Quotes from Steven J. Lawson

The greatest display of humility that the world has ever witnessed was the incarnation of Christ, which led ultimately to his crucifixion.

These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.

The aim of a good teacher, [is] to turn away the eyes of men from the world, that they may look up to heaven.

The decision to carry your cross is the one you must make. If you decide not to decide, that is a decision not to follow Christ.

3 Charles H. Spurgeon, "Election", sermón sobre 2 Tesalonicenses 2:13-14, predicado el 2 de septiembre de 1855; citado por David Steele y Curtis Thomas, The Five Points of Calvinism (Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1963),

Whitefield was aglow with the glory of God as he proclaimed the gospel of Christ.

We owe to the Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God because it has proceeded from Him alone, and has nothing of man mixed with it."14 This was the unshakable foundation of Calvin's preaching-the authority of divinely inspired Scripture. He firmly believed that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Are you a disciple of Jesus Christ? Step out of the crowd. Come to Him and receive His salvation. It is a free gift. I must tell you, it will cost you everything. However, you will gain everything—everything you need––both now and forever.

Ele escreveu: "Nada é mais contrário à pregação pura e livre do evangelho do que os dilemas de um coração covarde".[85]

Uma visão vulgar de Deus conduz somente à mediocridade. Entretanto, uma visão elevada de Deus inspira santidade e um espírito resoluto.

The whole world is now my parish. Wheresoever my Master calls me, I am ready to go and preach the everlasting gospel.

This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:

God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 — John MacArthur

You will never have a knowledge of sin unless you have a true conception of the holiness of God.

There shall be in the church a fleshly seed of Abraham and a spiritual; a Cain and an Abel; an Ishmael and an Isaac; an Esau and a Jacob; as I have said, a worker and a believer; a great multitude of them that be called, and a small flock of them that be elect and chosen.31

There is not one drop of real joy to be experienced apart from him. All joy is in the Lord.

J. C. Ryle writes, "The day of judgment will reveal strange things. The hopes of many who were thought great Christians while they lived will be utterly confounded. The rottenness of their religion will be exposed and put to shame before the whole world. It will then be proved that to be saved means something more than 'making a profession.'"9

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing—except his sin—to His salvation, not even his faith.

Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

False doctrine was threatening to disconnect the Philippian believers from their source of joy in Jesus Christ.

False teaching always does.

Spurgeon was once asked how he could reconcile the apparent contradiction between these two truths. He replied: "I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together."2

If William Tyndale was anything, he was audacious—a man emboldened to take great risks in fulfilling his dangerous mission for God.