Unity

To me one of the major tragedies of the hour, and especially in the realm of the Church, is that most of the time seems to be taken up by the leaders in preaching about unity instead of preaching the gospel that alone can produce unity.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones
God's Way of Reconciliation
BoT
p204

On Lingering over Scripture

I regard the Scripture and these great statements in it as being comparable to a great art gallery where there are famous paintings hanging on the walls. Certain people, when they visit such a place, buy a catalogue from the guide at the door, and then holding it in their hands walk round the gallery. They notice that Item number 1 is a painting by Van Dyck, let us say; and they say “Ah, that is a Van Dyck.” Then they pass on hurriedly to Item number 2, which is perhaps a portrait by Rembrandt. “Ah,” they say, “that’s a Rembrandt, a famous picture.” Then they move on to further Items in the same way. I grant that that is a possible way of viewing the treasures of an art gallery; and yet I have a feeling that when such a person has gone through every room of the gallery and has said, “Well, we have ‘done’ the National Gallery, let us now go to the Tate Gallery,” the truth is that they have never really seen either of the galleries or their treasures. It is the same in regard to the Scriptures. There are people who walk through this first chapter of this Epistle to the Ephesians in some such manner as I have described, and they feel that they have “done” it. It is surely better to stand, if necessary, for hours before this chapter which has been given to us by God Himself through His Spirit, and to gaze upon it, and to try to discover its riches both in general and in detail.

DM Lloyd-Jones
Quoted in J Meyer
Lloyd-Jones on the Christian Life
Crossway
p129

Loving God

We are meant to love God, not only to believe certain things about him.

DM Lloyd-Jones
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount, Vol 1
IVP
p237

Church

Do we go to God's house expecting something to happen? Or do we go just to listen to a sermon, and to sing our hymns, and to meet with one another? How often does this vital idea enter into our minds that we are in the presence of the living God, that the Holy Spirit is in the church, that we may feel the touch of his power? How much do we think in terms of coming together to meet with God, and to worship him, and to stand before him, and to listen to him? Is there not this appalling danger that we are just content because we have correct beliefs? And we have lost the life, the vital thing, the power, the thing that really makes worship worship, which is in Spirit and truth.

DM Lloyd-Jones
Revival
Marshall Pickering
p72

On forgiveness

There is all the difference in the world between believing that God does forgive sins, and knowing that God has forgiven my sins, my personal sins.

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Living Water, Vol 1
David Cook
p520