Quotes from Sinclair B. Ferguson

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.

Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.

When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God's awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

We can never reflect too much on God's grace.

We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.

Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.

The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.

Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.

God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

the Son of God took our nature and came in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8:3) in order to exchange places with Adam, so that His obedience and righteousness might for our sakes be exchanged for Adam's (and our) disobedience and sin (Rom. 5:12-21). Exchange

Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes its impact on us. But they never form the warrant for repentance and faith.

Faith is not the ground or basis upon which we are justified, but the means, the instrument, by which we are united to Christ, in whom our justification, our right-wising with God, has been accomplished.