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I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself.

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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To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be in Christ, it is for Christ to be in us.
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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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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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If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.
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There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
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You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.
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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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You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either dead or alive you are either born or not born.
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You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.
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All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.
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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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The ultimate cause of spiritual depression is unbelief. For if it were not for unbelief, even the devil could do nothing. It is because we listen to the devil instead of listening to God that we go down before him and fall before his attacks.
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We all tend to go to extremes some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no either/or here it is always both/and. These two things must go together.
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The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.
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The Gospel is open to all the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
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If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.
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Be still, and know that I am God. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up -or 'Give in' and admit I am God'. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him.
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Conviction is not repentance conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
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