Martyn Lloyd-Jones Quotes

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Faith is the refusal to panic.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.

There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between.

The gospel is meant to control and govern everything in our lives.

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

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.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

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?

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

To love to preach is one thing; to love to whom you preach is quite another.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

People who think that once they are converted all will be happy, have forgotten Satan.

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

There is no happiness finally, there is no peace, there is no joy except we be right with God. The miserable Christian is wrong in his ideas as to how this rightness with God is to be obtained.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.

There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

You must go on to remind yourself of God - who God is, and what God is, and what God has done, and what God has pledged Himself to do.

A revival means days of heaven upon earth.

A Christian is something before he does anything; and we have to be Christian before we can act as Christians.

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

Faith is a refusal to panic, come what may.

If in a Christian pulpit you have no business saying, "I suggest to you" No! "These things I declare to you."

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.

Man was never meant to be a god, but he is forever trying to deify himself.

If you can explain what is happening in a church, apart from the sovereign act of God, it is not revival.

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone.