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To fear man is natural; to fear God is wholly supernatural.
John Flavel
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As to mental maladies, is any man altogether sane? Are we not all a little off the balance?
Charles Spurgeon
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Quotes on Scripture
We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (London: Passmore)Bible, Scripture0An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (London: Passmore)
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Bible, Scripture0God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.
Bible, Scripture0God hath given us three books, which we ought to be studying whilst we are living: the book of conscience, the book of Scripture, and the book of the creature; in the book of conscience we may read ourselves, in the book of the creature we may read God, in the book of Scripture we may read both God and ourselves.
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Quotes on Truth
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus.
Truth0Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.
Truth, Love0Here is a simple but profound rule: if there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute. Society is left with one man or an elite filling the vacuum left by the loss of the Christian consensus which originally gave us form and freedom in northern Europe and in the West.
Society, Authority, Truth0Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
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Quotes on Church
The great concern of the New Testament is not about the size of the Church, it is about the purity of the Church.
Church, Holiness0The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.
Purity, Unity, Church0There is a very evident tendency to stress the fact that the Church is a great missionary agency, and to forget that it is first of all the assembly of the saints, in which those who publicly live in sin cannot be tolerated. It is said that sinners must be gathered into the church, and not excluded from it. But it should be remembered that they must be gathered in as saints and have no legitimate place in the Church as long as they do not confess their sin and strive for holiness of life.
Systematic Theology, 601Church0Systematic Theology, 601
We encourage our members to leave us to found other Churches; nay, we seek to persuade them to do it. We ask them to scatter through—out the land to become the goodly seed, which God shall bless. I believe that so long as we do this we shall prosper.
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Quotes on Preaching
Hard words, if they be true, are better than soft words, if they be false.
63 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34Preaching063 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34
No man preaches a sermon well to others who does not first preach it to his own heart.
Preaching0We must not talk to our congregations as if we were half asleep. Our preaching must not be articulate snoring. There must be power, life, energy, vigour. We must throw our whole selves into it, and show that the zeal of God's house has eaten us up.
Lectures to my StudentsPreaching0Lectures to my Students
You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
Chosen by God, p. 12Preaching0Chosen by God, p. 12
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Newest Quotes
It is impossible to write well about faith or to understand what has been written about it unless one has at one time or another experienced the courage which faith gives a man when trials oppress him.
Faith, Courage0Conscience is the foundation of all religion, and the two pillars upon which it is built are the being of God and the bounty of God to those who diligently seek him (Heb. 11:6).
Attributes, On God's ExistenceConscience0Attributes, On God's Existence
Without owning a God as the first cause of the world, no man can give any tolerable or satisfactory account of the world to his own reason.
Attributes, On God's ExistenceReason, Existence of God0Attributes, On God's Existence
Criticism does me far more good than praise ever does.
Criticism0We are saved not because of faith but through faith. It is Christ not faith that saves us.
Salvation, Faith0It is a God-like thing, though we are wronged by others, yet to be the first in seeking after peace.
Peace0Whether the person baptized is to be wholly immersed, and that whether once or thrice, or whether he is only to be sprinkled with water, is not of the least consequence: churches should be at liberty to adopt either, according to the diversity of climates, although it is evident that the term baptize means to immerse, and that this was the form used by the primitive church.
Calvin, Institutes, 4.15.19.Baptism0Calvin, Institutes, 4.15.19.
a man may as well doubt whether there be a sun when he sees his beams gliding the earth as doubt whether there be a God when he sees his works spread in the world
Attributes, Discourse 1Existence of God0Attributes, Discourse 1
Therefore, the hope of justification must not be placed in them, but in faith alone: we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law (Rom 3:28).
Commentary on 1 TimothyJustification0Commentary on 1 Timothy
The difficulty of passages does not imply a manifold intention of God, but some ambiguity in the words or weakness of our intellect.
Scripture, Interpretation0Don't be so polite as to deny the deity of Christ; though you may be counted fools in the eye of the world, yet in God's account, you shall be esteemed wise, wise for salvation.
Deity Of Christ0is it not a folly for an atheist to deny that which is the reason and common sentiment of the whole world, to strip himself of humanity, run counter to his own conscience, prefer a private before a universal judgment, give the lie to his own nature and reason, assert things impossible to be proved, nay, impossible to be acted, forge irrationalities for the support of his fancy against the common persuasion of the world, against himself, and against so much of God as is manifest in him and every man (Rom. 1:19)?
Atheism0When you hear men calling upon God in a time of affrighting thunder, you cannot imagine that the fear of thunder did first introduce the notion of a God, but it implies that it was before apprehended by them or stamped upon them.
On God\'s ExistenceExistence of God, Fear0On God\'s Existence
He who desires to be in an assured state, to have continual fellowship with God, to attain to a higher level of illumination & experience, and to fear God steadfastly, let him strictly observe his devotional time and let him not be neglectful in this.
Devotion0It is a sin in many Christians that they know not when to be silent. This is a great part of Christian prudence, to understand when to keep silence. It is much harder to learn to be silent than to learn to speak.
Works 2:289Sin, Silence0Works 2:289
Shall a silly passenger, that understands not the use of a compass, be angry that the skillfull pilot will not steer the vessel according to his pleasure?
God's Wisdom, Providence0
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