Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes
Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
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.
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.
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
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.
God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.
Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.
To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.