Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

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  Order, Two, Heaven

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• Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?

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  Dark, Providence, Relieved

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• Contentment is an undervalued grace.

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  Grace, Contentment, Undervalued

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• The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people.

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  Spiritual, Jewels, People

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• Secular humanism debases the human.

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  Secular Humanism, Secular, Humans

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• You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.

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  Christian, Lying, Father

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• When I look at the cross, I learn to say: 'The Son of God loved me, and gave Himself for me' (Galatians 2:20). I begin to believe with Paul that if God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up to the cross for me, then He loves me so much He will always give me only what will bring me blessing (Romans 8:32).

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  Believe, Son, Blessing

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• Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.

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  Heart, Self, Evil

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• Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.

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  Stress, Humility, Reflection

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• God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.

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  Doe, Crosses, Wells

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• Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.

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  Men, Insulting

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• 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.

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  Summer, Flower, Winter

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• Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.

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  Jesus, Looks, Spirit

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• The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.

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  Christian, Jesus, Past

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• When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace.

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  Mean, Grace, Doe

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• When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.

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  Men, Lost, All Things

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• 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!

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  World, Rooms, Mystery

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• No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy.

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  Spiritual, Children, Character

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• Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.

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  Christian, Issues, Grace

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• Thoughts for Young Men abounds in reliable counsel and says - with a rare combination of seriousness and graciousness - the very things we need to hear. Young men, for whom it was written, will find it invaluable; but all Christians, men or women, young or old, can read it with lasting benefit. It deserves to be widely read and circulated, and will do spiritual good to every reader.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Men

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• Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

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  Father, Son, Honor

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• I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my heart with his spiritual analysis, and help me to become a minister of the gospel, which is what I wanted to be.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Biblical

  Source: booksataglance.com

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• To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Would Be

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