John Nelson Darby Quotes

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• God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Moving, Behind The Scenes

  H. H. Snell., G. V. Wilgram, Edward Dennett, H. C. Anstey, C. H. Mackintosh (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 16, 1889 Edition”, p.70, Irving Risch

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• If we wait upon God, there is no danger. If we rush on, He must let us see the consequences of it.

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  Encouraging, Encouragement, Waiting

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• The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.

  John Nelson Darby

  Inspirational, God, Faith

  "Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume One: Ecclesiastical".

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• Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Doe, Proportion

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• The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death, man's hatred, God's desertion, and Satan's power ; we find Him there at the cost of everything. Everything that was against us was done away. By one man's obedience many are made righteous.

  John Nelson Darby

  Jesus, Men, Dust

  Walter Thomas Turpin, John Nelson Darby, Some Authors Unknown, W. H. Broom (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 3, 1876 Edition”, p.42, Irving Risch

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• God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

  John Nelson Darby

  Age, Church, Sufficient

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• Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than
  the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

  John Nelson Darby

  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  G. V. WIGRAM, E. L. Bevir, John Nelson Darby, C. H. Mackintosh, C. E. Stuart (2015). “The Christian's Friend and Instructor: Christian Magazine Volume 24, 1897 Edition”, p.72, Irving Risch

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• Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

  John Nelson Darby

  Evil, Unity, Principles

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• Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.

  John Nelson Darby

  Humility, Mind, Obedience

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume One: Ecclesiastical”, p.111, Irving Risch

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• Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I.

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  Christ, Poor, Converting

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• The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Responsibility, Church

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• This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill

  John Nelson Darby

  Believe, Men, Support

  John Nelson Darby (1881). “Letters by J.N.D., 1849-1875; extracts tr. from the French”

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• I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

  John Nelson Darby

  Thank God, Christ, Righteousness

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• The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

  John Nelson Darby

  Character, Church, Reformation

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume Fourteen: Ecclesiastical”, p.106, Irving Risch

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• During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

  John Nelson Darby

  Exercise, Soul, Solitude

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• Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

  John Nelson Darby

  Children, Able, Child Of God

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• Let those who like society better have it.

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• This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Children, Together

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• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Evil, Sin

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• I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

  John Nelson Darby

  Simplicity, Church, Add

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• But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

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  Real, Character, Giving

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• By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

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  Body, Spirit

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume Thirty-One: Doctrinal”, p.208, Irving Risch

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• Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.

  John Nelson Darby

  Mean, Blessing, Confusion

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• After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

  John Nelson Darby

  Exercise, Grace, Soul

  John Nelson Darby (2015). “Collected Writings by John Nelson Darby Volume One: Ecclesiastical”, p.31, Irving Risch

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• Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.

  John Nelson Darby

  Children, Dwelling, Church

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