God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
Sinclair B. FergusonThe jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.
Sinclair B. FergusonThe notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living.
Sinclair B. FergusonMost Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
Sinclair B. FergusonNo short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.
Sinclair B. FergusonYou cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.
Sinclair B. Ferguson