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Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.
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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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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The introduction is the first and best chance to win the attention of people who otherwise would not care. The first thing you have to do is make people believe that what you have to say is relevant and important.
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If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, I suggest to you No! These things I declare to you.
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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.
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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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There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
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The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.
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Conviction is not repentance conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.
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You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.
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The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.
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If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.
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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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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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The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
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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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Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.
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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 the refusal to panic.
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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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