It is our failure as Christian people to understand what our church membership means—the dignity, the privilege, and the responsibility—that causes most of our troubles. Our greatest need is to recapture the New Testament teaching concerning the church.
– D. Martin Lloyd-Jones –
Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition (there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about us as Christian people.) Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
– D. Martin Lloyd-Jones –
The greatest problem confronting us in the Church today is that the vast majority of professing Christians are not convinced of the reality and the desirableness of revivals.
– Martyn-Lloyd Jones –
I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.
– D. Martyn Lloyd Jones –
I do not understand Christian people who are not thrilled by the whole idea of revival. … If you want a perfect exposition of 1 Corinthians 1:25-31, read books on revival.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
I would say that a “dull preacher” is a contradiction in terms; if he is dull he is not a preacher. He may stand in a pulpit and talk, but he is certainly not a preacher.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
When Jesus said the Kingdom of God is within you, He meant that kingdom that governs and controls the heart and mind and outlook.
– Martin Lloyd-Jones –
The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be in Christ is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? Do they long for this? Is there something about them that tells you that they are always waiting for His next manifestation of Himself? Is their life centered on Him? Can they say with Paul that they forget everything in the past? Do they press forward more and more that they might know Him and that the knowledge might increase, until eventually beyond death and the grave they may bask eternally in ‘the sunshine of His face?’ That I might know Him!
– Martin Lloyd Jones –
If you want to understand Christianity, do not shut your Bible—open it, read it!
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –