Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes

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• 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.

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  Knowing, Joy, Worship

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

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  Bible, God, Christian

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• Appearances can be deceptive. The fact that we cannot see what God is doing does not mean that He is doing nothing. The Lord has His own timetable. It is we who must learn to adjust to it, not vice versa. When God's time comes nothing will stand in His way. We can therefore wait for Him with this happy confidence: "As for God, His way is perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31).

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  Mean, Perfect, Waiting

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• 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!

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  Real, Sacrifice, Blood

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• Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

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  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• It is only when we want to take our lives out of the Father’s hands and have them under our own control that we find ourselves gripped with anxiety. The secret of freedom from anxiety is freedom from ourselves and abandonment of our own plans. But that spirit emerges in our lives only when our minds are filled with the knowledge that our Father can be trusted implicitly to supply everything we need.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Father, Hands, Anxiety

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• Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Thinking, Heaven, Understanding

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• Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Needs

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• 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.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Humility, Light, Feelings

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Two, Growth

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• The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.

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  Church, Different, World

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• The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.

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  Christian, Secret, Lord

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• There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to be a minor one, but it may imply the difference between the worship of God and the worship of music!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Differences, May, Worship

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• Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Single Mom, Action, Moments

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• Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Jesus, Adam

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• God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.

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  Understood, Trusted

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• God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.

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  His Love, Matter, Chosen

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• Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  May, Obedience, Knows

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• When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Son, Looks, Faithfulness

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Knowing, Privilege

  Sinclair B. Ferguson (1985). “A Heart for God”, NavPress Publishing Group

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• 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.

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  Christian, Ambition, Contentment

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• Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  People, Priorities, And Love

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• Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Strong, Christ, Weak

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• Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Identity, Flesh

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