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I saw the other day in an Italian grotto a little fern, which grew where its leaves continually glistened and danced in the spray of a fountain. It was always green, and neither summer's drought nor winter's cold affected it. So let us for ever abide under the sweet influence of Jesus' love.
Charles Spurgeon
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Quotes on Law
The moral law requires obedience, but gives no strength (as Pharaoh required brick, but gave no straw), but the gospel gives strength; it bestows faith on the elect; it sweetens the law; it makes us serve God with delight.The Ten Commandments, 44
The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.
though the moral law be thus far abolished, it remains as a perpetual rule to believers. Though it be not their Saviour, it is their guide. Though it be not foedus, a covenant of life; yet it is norma, a rule of life. Every Christian is bound to conform to it; and to write, as exactly as he can after this copy. 'Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid.' Rom iii 31. Though a Christian is not under the condemning power of the law, yet he is under its commanding power.The Ten Commandments, 44
This I urge against Antinomians, who say the moral law is abrogated to believers; which, as it contradicts Scripture, so it is a key to open the door to all licentiousness. They who will not have the law to rule them, shall never have the gospel to save them.The Ten Commandments, 44
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Quotes on Worship
Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.
Not only is music rarely associated with worship in the New Testament but the Pentateuch is altogether silent on music associated with tabernacle worship. All of this highlights our skewed preoccupation with music in the current conflicts over worship.For the Glory of God (xi)
As the loving mother rejoices to be the fountain of nourishment to the babe which clings to her warm bosom, so the Christian father delights to convey, even by reverent reading, "the sincere milk of the word" (1 Peter 2:2). He has found it good to his own soul; he rejoices in an appointed means of conveying it to his offspring.A Theology of the Family
Since a house of worship is not a concert hall, the best place for a choir or musical groups is on the balcony at the back.For the Glory of God (330)
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Quotes on Grace
Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/sustained-by-sovereign-grace-forever
It is against the nature of grace, not to be in motion, not to increase in being more holy.
In nature, I can't live without breathing. In grace, I cannot live without praying.
It is due to common grace that God did not at once fully execute the sentence of death on the sinner, and does not do so now, but maintains and prolongs the natural life of man and gives him time for repentance. He does not at once cut short the life of the sinner, but affords him an opportunity to repent, thereby removing all excuse and justifying the coming manifestation of His wrath upon those who persist in sin unto the end.Systematic Theology, 442
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Quotes on Marriage
And it is a mercy to have so near a friend to be a helper to your soul; to join with you in prayer and other holy exercises; to watch over you and tell you of your sins and dangers, and to stir up in you the grace of God, and remember to you of the life to come, and cheerfully accompany you in the ways of holiness.Richard Baxter,A Christian Directoiy: or, Sum ofPractical7heology, and Cases of Conscience, 11.1 (7he Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter [London: James Duncan, 1830], IV, 30).
I take occasion to make the general remark that the great thing I always desired to find was a woman who was a real Christian, who was a real lady, and who was not a fool.AutoBiography (73)
Our discussion of divorce and remarriage must not center on "What saith Shammai?" or "What saith Hillel?" but on "What saith the Lord?"The Divorce Myth, 14
The man whose heart is endeared to the woman he loves, he dreams of her in the night, hath her in his eye and apprehension when he awakes, museth on her as he sits at table, walks with her when he travels and parlies with her in each place where he comes.Thomas Hooker, 7heApplication of Redemption (London: Peter Cole, 1659), 137. Michael A. G. Haykin. The Christian Lover: The Sweetness of Love and Marriage in the Letters of Believers (Kindle Location 122). Kindle Edition.
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A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire.
It is a hard matter to enjoy the world without being entangled with the cares and pleasures of it.
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he dwelleth longest; therefore eternity should be in his scope.
The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections. Study is like a winter sun, that shines, but warms not: but meditation is like a blowing upon the fire, where we do not mind the blaze, but the heat.
A clear head must be accompanied with a clean heart; saving knowledge is ever a sanctifying knowledge.
When you hear this or that condemned as a sin in the word, and yet will continue in it, here is enough to evidence you are unbelievers.
It is better to go to heaven alone than to hell with company.
grace never changes what is right. It does change our relationship to what is right by giving us a desire and the power to do right, but it never redefines the standard of right and wrong.Law-and-Gospel
How little is God in the thoughts of the great when his own day is the chosen season for their councils, and that, too, when no crisis is impending, and no immediate disaster compels them to hasty deliberations. Here were all the days in the week, all equally available no haste compelling, no wars alarming, and yet none of their own six days will suit them, they must usurp God's peculiar day, as if they were lords of the Sabbath, or irresponsible to the laws of heaven. What, but confusion, can be the result of such councils? Will not the Lord be avenged on such a people as this? Rhea, Brandon. Spurgeon's Forgotten Sabbatarianism: Examining the Role of the 4th Commandment in His Life and Theology (p. 62). Founders Press. Kindle Edition. A
Baptists, Methodists, Congregationalists, and Anglicans united in their opposition against Sabbath breaking for theological reasons. Spurgeon, therefore, fit into the mainstream of religious thought regarding the Sabbath, but his convictions ran counter to a growing secularized and industrialized urban city.Spurgeon\'s Forgotten Sabbatarianism: Examining the Role of the 4th Commandment in His Life and Theology (p. 54). Founders Press.
A continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
Always respond to every impulse to pray.
God cannot give us happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
If you do not listen to theology, that will not mean you have no ideas about God, rather it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
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