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Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

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When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.
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Contentment is an undervalued grace.
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The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.
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My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
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God's guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable that the unfolding of His purposes will take time - sometimes a very long time.
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The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
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The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.
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Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian
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The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
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The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
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The 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.
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God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
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Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.
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God made everything else but man after its kind' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
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Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
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No 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.
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Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
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We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
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How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
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Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
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