Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson is a well-known Scottish Reformed theologian known for his many books and pastoral and teaching ministries held during the past fifty years. His quotations below display a depth of insight into our Christian walk that I pray will stimulate your heart, mind, and soul.1
“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 be found in worshiping Him, your only wisdom is to be found in trusting and knowing Him.”
“My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibility of my Savior.”
“Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.”
“Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.”
“Humility is not simply feeling small and useless – like an inferiority complex. It is sensing how great and glorious God is, and seeing myself in that light.”
“Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.”
“When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor – then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ’s shed blood chokes them into silence!”
“The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears… This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.”
“The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.”
“Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.”
“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 in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.”
“Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.”
“God’s promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual ‘fix’ for the day.”
“Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.”
“God made everything else but man ‘after its kind’” – that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God – in created, human form.”
“If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.”
“The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.”
“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 that here men and women call God ‘Father.’ This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.”
1 All of these quotations are from the following website:
TOP 25 QUOTES BY SINCLAIR B. FERGUSON (of 98) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
I believe the quote: “The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed,” is from William Templeton.