“The Scripture is to be its own interpreter or rather the Spirit speaking in it;
nothing can cut the diamond but the diamond;
nothing can interpret Scripture but Scripture.”
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Thomas Watson
Entries Categorized as 'Quotes'
Interpreting Scripture
June 13, 2009
Preconceived Ideas
June 13, 2009
There is nothing so dangerous as to come to the Bible with a theory,
with preconceived ideas, with some pet idea of our own,
because the moment we do so,
we shall be tempted to over-emphasize one aspect
and under-emphasize another.
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D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones in “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount“
Election and Predestination Precede Salvation by Spurgeon
May 25, 2009
Things That Accompany Salvation
September 20, 1857
by C. H. SPURGEON
… Before Salvation came into this world, Election marched in the very forefront, and it had for its work the billeting of Salvation. Election went through the world and marked the houses to which Salvation should come and the hearts in which the treasure should be deposited. [...]
Reading The Bible
May 13, 2009
How long is it since you read right through the Bible?
Do you spend as much time with the Bible each day
as you do even with the newspaper?
What fools some of us are! — and we remain fools all our lives,
simply because we will not take the trouble to do what has to be done
to receive [...]
Quotes – Charles Spurgeon
April 21, 2009
“I do believe that we slander Christ
when we think that we are to draw the people
by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.”
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Charles Spurgeon
Killing Sin – John Owen
April 6, 2009
Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the [...]
How Can You Love Someone Who Rejects You?
April 2, 2009
The following scene from the movie Fireproof is profound.
1 John 4:10-12
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has [...]
Al Mohler’s Statement About John Calvin
March 19, 2009
“What you won’t find in John Calvin’s preaching is Calvin.”
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Albert Mohler in John Calvin: Preacher and Teacher
at The Holiness of God Conference
How much of you is in your preaching or teaching?
Shouldn’t it be about God?
Spurgeon on Sermons
March 15, 2009
What kind of sermon will you have today?
“Everywhere there is apathy.
Nobody cares whether that which is preached is true or false.
A sermon is a sermon whatever the subject;
only, the shorter it is the better.”
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Melody Pierces the Heart More Strongly – Calvin
March 10, 2009
“Moreover, in speaking now of music, I understand two parts: namely the letter, or subject and matter; secondly, the song, or the melody. It is true that every bad word (as St. Paul has said) perverts good manner, but when the melody is with it, it pierces the heart much more strongly, and enters into [...]
A.W. Pink Quote
March 9, 2009
“If the gospel were more faithfully preached,
there would be fewer people professing to believe it.”
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A.W. Pink
Eternal Life – Paul Washer
March 9, 2009
“He saved you so that throughout all of eternity, you would be a blessing to His Son. So start now. Eternal life does not start when you cross over into glory. It starts at the moment of your conversion. Eternal life is this, to know Him so start knowing Him now. The purpose of your [...]
Quote – John Bunyan
February 27, 2009
“How many are there in our day, since the Gospel is grown so common, that catch up a notion of good things and from that notion make a profession of the name of Christ, get into churches, and obtain the title of brother, a saint, a member of the Gospel congregation, that have clean escaped [...]
Charles Spurgeon Quote on Heathen
February 13, 2009
“Answering a student’s question, ‘Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?’ thus, ‘It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.”
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Charles Spurgeon
It’ll Take All Your Life – Paul Washer
February 8, 2009
“How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? . . . How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.“? No my dear friend, it will take your [...]
Prayer Quote – D. A. Carson
February 8, 2009
“Unless we plan to pray we will not pray.
The reason we pray so little is that we do not plan to pray.
Wise planning will ensure that we devote ourselves to prayer often,
even if for brief periods;
it is better to pray often with brevity than rarely bus at length.
But the worst option is simply not to [...]
Wicked Perversity of My Nature – Spurgeon
February 1, 2009
Go home, then, with this thought; “I am by nature so perverse that I will not come unto Christ, and that wicked perversity of my nature is my sin. I deserve to be sent to hell for it.” And if the thought does not humble you, the Spirit using it, no other can. This morning [...]
I Thank Thee For My Glorious Free-Will – Spurgeon
February 1, 2009
But I tell you what will be the best proof of that; it is the great fact that you never did meet a Christian in your life who ever said he came to Christ without Christ coming to him. You have heard a great many Arminian sermons, I dare say; but you never heard an [...]
Spurgeon Quote
January 27, 2009
If an act of sin would increase my usefulness tenfold,
I have no right to do it;
and if an act of righteousness would appear
likely to destroy all my apparent usefulness,
I am yet to do it.
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Right View of God – Tozer Quote
January 23, 2009
One of the priorities for looking for a church is to find a church that exhibits the right view of God. Not the man upstairs, the homeboy, or the “lovey-dovey god” who couldn’t actually send someone to Hell.
A church that worships the God as He is displayed throughout the Old and New Testament is a [...]