You 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-JonesWe 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.
Martyn Lloyd-JonesThe glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
Martyn Lloyd-JonesFirst of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.
Martyn Lloyd-JonesThough we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.
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