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If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Age: 81 †
Born: 1899
Born: December 20
Died: 1981
Died: March 1
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If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.
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There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.
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The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?
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First 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.
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What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
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Faith is the refusal to panic.
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Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.
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There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
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There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.
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Conviction is not repentance conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
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Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
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Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.
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Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.
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Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?
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The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.
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We 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.
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The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
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Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven it is the connection between this world and the world to come faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.
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