Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes
- We [should not] make the mistake of thinking that marriage will provide the ultimate satisfaction for which we all hunger. To assume so would be…
- Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . .…
- Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding…
- How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
- When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ…
- The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.
- There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.
- The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
- The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
- The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
- To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.
- God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us.
- It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find…
- It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.
- The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.
- Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
- Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
- If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life of absolute sin-less-ness…
- Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
- Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.