“You see the tragedy today is that people don’t seek the causes. They are so bemused by particular symptoms and manifestations that they proceed at once to them and to apply their medicaments to them. They never realise the causes.” Martyn-Lloyd Jones @TheMLJTrust
“I’m almost persuaded that the chief problem today is not the problem of people who say there is no God, or who are outside in the world. It’s the problem of people who go to the house of God in a purely formal, external, and mechanical manner.” Martyn-Lloyd Jones @TheMLJTrust
“The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not one of a number of theories and teachings and philosophies confronting the world. It is unique, it stands absolutely alone.” @TheMLJTrust
Teaching Christian ethics without Christ is a lost cause.
“Christianity has been reduced to a moral and an ethical code and teaching. That leads inevitably to failure and to disaster, for it leaves the whole business to us as individuals.” @TheMLJTrust
James Talarico: “It’s really easy to love your neighbor who looks like you, prays like you, votes like you. The challenge is to love people who look differently, who pray differently, who vote differently”
“And the progeny of such lust is horrible to contemplate. Jealousy and envy. Malice and hatred and spite. Have you ever thought of anger and temper as a lust? Have you seen a man trembling in a rage? Oh anger is a terrible lust.” Martyn-Lloyd Jones
Desire for prominence. Desire for fame. Desire for success. Anxiety to make money, to cut a great a figure. All of these are nothing but lust.” @TheMLJTrust Martyn -Lloyd Jones
“What is man? Have you faced the question? It’s because people don’t know what man is that they are living like beasts, like pigs. Like animals and worsts. If they only knew something of the inherent greatness that is in man. As made in the image of God.” @TheMLJTrust
“This generation that boasts so much about its intellect, it doesn’t think. If it did, you know it wouldn’t believe in all of the advertisements on the television.” @TheMLJTrust Martyn-Loyds Jones
“The learned man is not of necessity a wise man. And the whole trouble in the world today is that it’s exalting men of mere knowledge sometimes very clever men, but a man can be very clever and yet lacking in wisdom.” Martyn-Lloyd Jones @TheMLJTrust
“And let our make and place as men, remind us of our duty as Christians, always to keep heaven in our eye, and the earth under our feet.” Matthew Henry
“The trouble with men is not simply that they don’t believe in God. They hate God. And there no use disputing it. It’s a fact. Men in sin hates God. There is a vituperation. There’s an antipathy. There’s a veritable hatred in the hearts of men.” Martyn-Lloyd Jones
The gospel really is unique in its simplicity:
"Repent and believe in Jesus and you will be saved," apart from good works, religious institutions, or anything else.
Come with nothing in your hands. Cling to the cross. Look and live.
“I’ve known many nice and respectful people who’ve told me in discussion that they believe in God, but the moment that I point out to them about what the Bible tells us about God they show their bitterness. They show their hatred.” Martyn-Lloyds Jones @TheMLJTrust