What They Said

“The majority have ceased to attend a place of worship at all, and (alas!) many who do attend, do so, not because they believe it to be essential and vital, but rather out of habit or because they believe vaguely that it is somehow the right thing to do. Religion far from being the mainspring and source of all ideas concerning life and how it should be lived, has become a mere appendage even in the case of many who still adhere to it.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Men resent the very idea of God and feel that it means and implies that their liberty is somehow curtailed. They believe that they are fit to be "masters of their fate and captains of their souls," and believing that, they demand the right to manage themselves in their own way and to live their own lives. They refuse to worship and to glorify God. They disown Him and turn their backs upon Him and say that they do not need Him. They renounce His way of life and shake off what they regard as the bondage and serfdom of religion and a life controlled by God.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Man starts in communion with God and in a state of happiness. It is as a result of his own action, his own sin, that that communion is broken and man's problems begin.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“We must rouse ourselves and realise afresh that though our Gospel is timeless and changeless, it nevertheless is always contemporary. We must meet the present situation and we must speak a word to the world that none else can speak.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.”

“There is no doubt but that the most unhappy and discouraged Christian today are those who do not exercise their senses with respect to this Word of God.”

“It is very foolish to ignore the past. The man who does ignore it, and assumes that our problems are quite new, and that therefore the past has nothing at all to teach us, is a man who is not only grossly ignorant of the Scriptures, he is equally ignorant of some of the greatest lessons even in secular history.”

“The Christian message is not one which lauds or praises the past; it is concerned to make us look to the future.”

“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell."

“And the business of preaching is not just to give a temporary word of comfort which will soon be forgotten; it is so to build us up in the faith that, whatever comes, we will be secure.”

“We are never in a more dangerous position and condition than when we are idle."

“We ‘run with patience’; that means, go on with ‘patient endurance’.  This is one of the great secrets of the Christian life, the secret of knowing in its fulness the comfort and consolation of the Christian teaching.  We must take this exercise regularly.”

“Christian people, the world is looking to you for teaching, for instruction, for an example of how to live  triumphantly.  So exercise your senses, lay hold on these things, look to the great heroes of the faith for inspiration.  Above all, ‘look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith’, ……”

“We must not even think of fleeing in danger’s hour.  Many have done so of course.  That is why the church in this country is as weak as she is today.”

"This generation of humanity, far from being ruled by reason, is ruled by lust for pleasures and passions for power.”

"By definition, a Christian should be an enigma to every person who is not a Christian."

"If you try to imitate Christ, the world will praise you; if you become Christlike, the world will hate you."

"Intellectual pride is the last citadel of self."

"To divorce forgiveness of sins from the actual living of the Christian life is nothing but rank heresy!"

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