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“The ultimate reason for being is to glorify God.”
― John MacArthur

“Christian, be joyful. Christian, be thankful. Christian, be comforted, be hopeful. Take whatever comes down the path in life and put it in that limitless bag called Romans 8:28, and know that someday it'll turn to gold. Be thankful.”
― John MacArthur

“If you are not forgiving, that isn't the new you. That's your sinful flesh vaulting itself into prominence. When you do that, you will cut yourself off from that relational forgiveness with God that makes communing with Him sweet. If you look at your spiritual life and see a lack of power and depth, a lack of a hunger for God's Word, and a lack of love for the private place of prayer and communion resulting in the loss of the richness in your relationship with God, it may be that there is a barrier of unforgiveness that you have built which is preventing the Lord from giving you the forgiveness that issues in a sweet relationship with Him. If that is the case in your life, the Lord isn't going to open up the flow of communion with Him until you forgive where forgiveness is needed.”
― John MacArthur

“If somebody sins against me, and somebody violates me, and somebody offends me, and my reaction in the human flesh would be to be angry, and bitter, and wrathful, and malicious, and slanderous, I stop and think, "But wait a minute, I don’t want anything out of them. After all, Jesus already bore that sin in His own body on the tree." Jesus already spilled His blood for that sin. What am I going to ask, what do I want, what more could there be? So next time you think you ought to have a vengeful attitude, next time you want to lash back at somebody, the next time you want to say an unkind word, or you want to be bitter towards somebody, next time you want to slander somebody, or whisper behind their back, or retaliate, or seek vengeance to somebody, remember that the very sin that they used against you, the very thing they did to you, Jesus already bore in His own body on the cross.”
― John MacArthur

“We live in a society that has made a virtue or tried to make a virtue out of vindictiveness.”
― John MacArthur

“We live in a society that has made a virtue, or tried to make a virtue, out of vindictiveness.”
― John MacArthur

“Never is a person more like Satan than when he hates.”
― John MacArthur

“Our forgiveness is supposed to be lavish, enthusiastic, eager, freely offered, and unconstrained—even for repeat offenders. After all, we are all repeat offenders against God.”
― John MacArthur