David Lloyd-Jones famous quotes

03-14-2025

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Christian #Heart #Understanding
The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Faith #Christian #Men
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 despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Inspiration #Two #Preparation
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 God knows them. So words are not always necessary. When we cannot express our feelings except in wordless groanings, God knows exactly what is happening.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Prayer #Heart #Ideas
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?
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Talking #Listening #Unhappy
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 a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desire, but it will not guarantee success.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Good Life #Desire #Guarantees
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, and your preaching will not be effective.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Preparation #Spirit #Holy
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 every noble, uplifting desire that is in you; but realize that these things alone are not enough, that they will never bring you to the desired place. We have to realize that all our best is totally inadequate, that a spiritual battle must be fought in a spiritual manner.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Uplifting #Spiritual #Desire
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 the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Real #Spirit #Holy
A man who imagines that because he has a head full of knowledge that he is sufficient for these things had better start learning again. 'Who is sufficient for these things?' What are you doing? You are not simply imparting information, you are dealing with souls, you are dealing with pilgrims on the way to eternity, you are dealing with matters not only of life and death in this world, but with eternal destiny.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Destiny #Men #Life And Death
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 of everything.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Men #Endurance #Patient
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. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Prayer #Reading #Law
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 are the people of God.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Christian #Thinking #Organization
Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Prayer #Expression #Way
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 should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Prayer #Children #Father
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 it, it is not you who is going to do it, but God. 'The peace of God that passeth all understanding'-He, through it all, 'will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus'.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Jesus #Prayer #Heart
Faith is the refusal to panic.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Panic #Refusal
The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Salvation #Claims #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 one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Christian #Jesus #Lying
If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Forget
There are powers that can counterfeit almost everything in the Christian life.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Christian #Christian Inspirational #Christian Life
What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.
-- David Lloyd-Jones

#Men #Thinking #Giving

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