March Featured Quotes
Quotes on Gospel
Grace is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over the joy in sin.
The moral law requires obedience, but gives no strength (as Pharaoh required brick, but gave no straw), but the gospel gives strength; it bestows faith on the elect; it sweetens the law; it makes us serve God with delight.The Ten Commandments, 44
The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.
though the moral law be thus far abolished, it remains as a perpetual rule to believers. Though it be not their Saviour, it is their guide. Though it be not foedus, a covenant of life; yet it is norma, a rule of life. Every Christian is bound to conform to it; and to write, as exactly as he can after this copy. 'Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid.' Rom iii 31. Though a Christian is not under the condemning power of the law, yet he is under its commanding power.The Ten Commandments, 44
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Quotes on Ten Commandments
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
if one accepts some terms of the Decalogue as normative for Christians, one must accept all. This document must be received as a package, beginning with the preamble and ending with the command against coveting. The principles are cast as absolute and unconditional commands, without qualification, and for the most part without declared motivation.
The words of the Decalogue... remain permanently with us, receiving by means of his advent in the flesh, extension and increase, but not abrogation.Against Heresies
The laws of the Bible, outside the Ten Commandments, are case laws, and I have been arguing that largely, the Reformed faith has viewed it as the duty of the Christian ruler to extend the equity of these cases to cover whatever details they find in their own society.Mission of God, 343
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Quotes on Sin
there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2
Do not lose lying in Abraham's bosom for now lying in Delilah's lap.
Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:500
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Quotes on Faith
If God then withdraws Himself, if in the soul of men He bear no more witness to the truth of His Word, men can no longer believe, and no apologetics, however brilliant, will ever be able to restore the blessing of faith in the ScripturePrinciples of Sacred Theology, 366
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Our faith in God is not just a philosophical belief in a supreme being; it is a life-changing experience of the one who has made us what we are.God is Love
Fear consults with flesh and blood, while faith engages with God to supply strength to endure the siege.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 53
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It is true, of two evils we must choose the less, but of two sins we must choose neither, nor ever do evil that good may come of it.
A life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.
Holy joy is the oil to the wheels of our obedience.
For since His will can have for its object nothing but good, it cannot will evil as evil, but as terminated on the permission of that which is good. God, therefore, properly does not will sin to be done, but only wills to permit it.
Effectual calling is an act of the grace of God in Christ by which he calls men dead in sin and lost in Adam through the preaching of the Gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit, to union with Christ and to salvation obtained in him.
The liberty of reading the Scriptures does not take away either oral instruction, pastoral direction or other helps necessary to understanding. It only opposes the tyranny of those who do not wish the darkness of their errors to be dissipated by the light of the divine word.
By the beatific vision... God will be seen without end, loved without cloying, praised without weariness.Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 3.612
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable way of dying.
We preach and pray, and you hear; but there is no motion Christ-ward until the Spirit of God blows upon them.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
God wants us to know that the time [of Christ's return] is definite. In his mind it's going to happen at a definite time. But you and I can never say exactly which is the date.
Love is an expansion of soul, or the inflaming of the affections, by which a Christian breathes after God as the supreme and sovereign good.
If God isn't in his rightful place at the center of your family, guess who you'll stick in his place? Yourself! You'll make it all about you -your schedule, your pleasure, your control.
A man learns to preach by learning to acquire confidence, not in himself, but in his cause, and in him in whose name he speaks.
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