Quote

It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sinclair B. Ferguson
Persons
Person
Important
Centrality
Preaches
Word

More quotes by Sinclair B. Ferguson

Image
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional...it is theological.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
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.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
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.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Secular humanism debases the human.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
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.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
Image
God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
Sinclair B. Ferguson