Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899 – 1981) started his career as a medical doctor but felt the call of the Lord and chose the Gospel ministry over medicine. He loved to share the Word of God verse by verse and in addition to his pastoring several churches served as a counsellor to other ministers. His preaching always drew large crowds and his love of the Scriptures was evident to all who had the privilege to hear him preach. Below are some of his powerful quotes on what it means to be a serious Christian.1
“Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”
“When the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though it may hate it at first.”
“I am not asking whether you know things about Him but do you know God, are you enjoying God, is God the centre of your life, the soul of your being, the source of your greatest joy? He is meant to be.”
“The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man’s troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell.”
“The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.”
“The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart.”
“I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things… I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself.”
“Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.”
“The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.”
“The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.”
“According to Scripture, the trouble with man by nature is not that he is incomplete but that he is dead.”
“Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.”
“There is nothing more foolish or self-defeating than for a Christian to say that he is not interested in doctrines.”
“If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.”
“Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.”
“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.”
“If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.”
“The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.”
“All teaching and all truth and all doctrine must be tested in the light of the scriptures.”
“…There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to our knees with a sense of humility and be made to cry to God that He would visit us again.”
1 All of these quotes are from the two websites below:
TOP 25 QUOTES BY MARTYN LLOYD-JONES (of 75) | A-Z Quotes (azquotes.com)
Inspirational Quotes by Martyn-Lloyd Jones (bibleportal.com)