Quotes from Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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.

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.

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.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

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.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

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.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

God permits war in order that men may bear the consequences of their sins as punishment. How clearly this is shown time and time again in the story of the children of Israel!

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.