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.
Martyn Lloyd-JonesSpiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.
Martyn Lloyd-JonesYou must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.
Martyn Lloyd-JonesThe terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones