David Lloyd-Jones Quotes

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• Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text.…
• Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
• We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we…
• You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do…
• Faith is the refusal to panic.
• The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
• It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the…
• If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
• The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
• There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
• We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we…
• The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
• 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…
• There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite…
• There are ideas in our hearts, there are wishes, there are aspirations, there are groanings, there are sighings that the world knows nothing about; but…
• There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in…
• We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to…
• You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power,…
• Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live…
• So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay great heed to…

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