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“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.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man’s treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. “Why art thou cast down, O my soul?” he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, “Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.”
― Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up (or 'Give in') and admit I am God. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“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.”
― D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

“when saints sin, they know they are not sinning against law but against love.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Experiencing the New Birth: Studies in John 3

“The Christian is not superficial in any sense, but is fundamentally serious and fundamentally happy. You see, the joy of the Christian is a holy joy, the happiness of the Christian is a serious happiness. ... it is a solemn joy, it is a holy joy, it is a serious happiness; so that, though he is grave and sober-minded and serious, he is never cold and prohibitive.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“We are all in such a hurry, we want everything at once. We believe that all truth can be stated in a few minutes. The answer to that is that it cannot.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure

“Why do you read all the details of divorce cases in the newspapers? ... you are enjoying it. You would not dream of doing these things yourself, but you are doing them by proxy.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“In a sense the most approachable Person this world has ever seen was the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“No man can tell what he will feel like tomorrow morning; you do not control that. Our business is to do something about these changing moods and not to allow ourselves to become victims of them.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

“I sometimes think that the whole art of the Christian life is the art of asking questions.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

“It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”
― Adrian Rogers

“A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.”
― Adrian Rogers

“We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.”
― Adrian Rogers

“Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.”
― Dr. Sinclair Ferguson

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“There are some games you don't get to play unless you are all in.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

“Don’t ever underestimate the destructive power of sins of omission.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Worthlessness is the default condition.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Scccccratccch the most clever postmodern-relativist professor’s Mercedes with a key, and you will see how fast the mask of relativism (with its pretense that there can be neither right nor wrong) and the cloak of radical tolerance come off.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Mark Twain once said, “It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“we are increasingly falling prey to the desperation of meaninglessness,”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Family Driven Faith: Doing What It Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who walk with God

“Gentleness is not a lack of strength; gentleness is strength under control.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., What He Must Be: ...If He Wants to Marry My Daughter

“It has been said that holding on to unforgiveness is like drinking poison while hoping the other person dies.”
― Voddie T. Baucham Jr., Joseph and the Gospel of Many Colors: Reading an Old Story in a New Way

“If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If Hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t.”
― Charles Spurgeon