“When we realize truly what we have to be, and what we have to do, we become inevitably 'poor in spirit'. That in turn leads to that second state in which, realizing our own sinfulness and our own true nature,… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“I cannot help feeling that the final explanation of the state of the Church today is a defective sense of sin and it defective doctrine of sin. Coupled with that, of course, is a failure to understand the true nature… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Anyone who thinks that he can live the Christian life himself is proclaiming that he is not a Christian.” — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“this life is a kind of preparatory school for the great life that is awaiting us beyond death and time.” — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“this other man within us, has got to be handled. Do not listen to him; turn on him; speak to him; condemn him; upbraid… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.' What does it mean? Let me put it negatively like this. We are not to hunger and thirst after blessedness; we are not to hunger and thirst after happiness. But that is what most people are doing. We put happiness and blessedness as the one thing that we desire, and… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share
“The Christian is confronted by two ways only, and if we are not on the strait and narrow way, we are on the wide… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Once again, therefore, I would define meekness like this. The man who is truly meek is the one who is amazed that God and… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Preaching has very largely become a profession. Instead of real Christian sermons we are given secondhand expositions of psychology. The preachers say they that… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“this is not allegory. I have no gospel unless this is history. In addition, I have been pointing out that as well as being… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“The meek already inherit the earth in this life, in this way. A man who is truly meek is a man who is always… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a… — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
