Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes

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• You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ
• My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
• Christian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal…
• Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to…
• The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring…
• Humility is not simply feeling small and useless - like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself…
• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent…
• Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
• No one can will the will to will what it will not will!
• There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
• Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a…
• You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is…
• Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
• We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
• For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make…
• God is God; you are but one of His creatures. Your only joy is to be found in obeying Him, your true fulfillment is to…
• It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of…
• The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological.…
• There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to…
• Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.

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