March Featured Quotes
Quotes on Gospel
Grace is God's giving us a sovereign joy in God that triumphs over the joy in sin.
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
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Quotes on Ten Commandments
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by ten thousand commandments.
if one accepts some terms of the Decalogue as normative for Christians, one must accept all. This document must be received as a package, beginning with the preamble and ending with the command against coveting. The principles are cast as absolute and unconditional commands, without qualification, and for the most part without declared motivation.
The words of the Decalogue... remain permanently with us, receiving by means of his advent in the flesh, extension and increase, but not abrogation.Against Heresies
The laws of the Bible, outside the Ten Commandments, are case laws, and I have been arguing that largely, the Reformed faith has viewed it as the duty of the Christian ruler to extend the equity of these cases to cover whatever details they find in their own society.Mission of God, 343
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Quotes on Sin
there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2
Do not lose lying in Abraham's bosom for now lying in Delilah's lap.
Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:500
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Quotes on Faith
If God then withdraws Himself, if in the soul of men He bear no more witness to the truth of His Word, men can no longer believe, and no apologetics, however brilliant, will ever be able to restore the blessing of faith in the ScripturePrinciples of Sacred Theology, 366
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Our faith in God is not just a philosophical belief in a supreme being; it is a life-changing experience of the one who has made us what we are.God is Love
Fear consults with flesh and blood, while faith engages with God to supply strength to endure the siege.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 53
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[Wordliness:] Everything in a culture that makes sin look normal and righteousness look odd.
clearer passages should help interpret less clear ones. For example, doctrinal assertions in epistles often provide a theological grid through which to understand narrative or poetic texts. This principle helps ensure that our interpretations are consistent with the overall teaching of Scripture and guards against eisegesis—reading our own ideas into the text.
Whenever we read the Scriptures, it is vital that we keep in mind the principle that the explicit, direct teaching passages of the Bible must control our interpretation of passages that convey their teaching less directly and more implicitly. https://learn.ligonier.org/devotionals/explicit-and-implicit-teaching
It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer.Answers to Prayer From George Müller’s Narratives
Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord’s work.George Muller of Bristol by A.T. Pierson, 1899
Nine-tenths of the difficulties are overcome when our hearts are ready to do the Lord’s will, whatever it may be.The Autobiography of George Muller, Whitaker House, 1984
God judges what we give by what we keep.George Muller of Bristol by A.T. Pierson, 1899
The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.The Autobiography of George Muller, Whitaker House, 1984
I have joyfully dedicated my whole life to the object of exemplifying how much may be accomplished by prayer and faith.The Autobiography of George Muller, Whitaker House, 1984
Be assured, if you walk with Him and look to Him, and expect help from Him, He will never fail you.George Muller of Bristol by A.T. Pierson, 1899
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.Answers to Prayer From George Müller’s Narratives
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.Release the Power of Prayer, Whitaker House, 2005
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.George Muller of Bristol by A.T. Pierson, 1899
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.The Autobiography of George Muller, Whitaker House, 1984
Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man’s power ends.A Narrative of Some of the Lord’s Dealings with George Müller, 1837
The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.The Autobiography of George Muller, Whitaker House, 1984
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