Lisa Bertrand > Lisa's Quotes

“If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“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.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“What is meant by this term, 'the heart'? According to the general scriptural usage of the term, the heart means the centre of the personality. It does not merely mean the seat of the affections and the emotions.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“The heretics were never dishonest men; they were mistaken men. They should not be thought of as men who were deliberately setting out to go wrong and to teach something that is wrong; they have been some of the most sincere men that the Church has ever known. What was the matter with them? Their trouble was this: they evolved a theory and they were rather pleased with it; then they went back with this theory to the Bible, and they seemed to find it everywhere.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“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.”
― D. Martin Lloyd-Jones

“when saints sin, they know they are not sinning against law but against love.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Experiencing the New Birth: Studies in John 3

“That is the only way to understand rightly this picture of the false prophets. The false prophet is a man who has no `strait gate' or `narrow way' in his gospel. He has nothing which is offensive to the natural man; he pleases all.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“[Jesus] must have control not only in the big things, but in the little things also; not only over what we do, but how we do it. We must submit to Him and His way as He has been pleased to reveal it in the Bible; and if what we do does not conform to this pattern, it is an assertion of our will, it is disobedience, and as repellent as the sin of witchcraft.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“The Church has been trying to preach morality and ethics without the Gospel as a basis; it has been preaching morality without godliness; and it simply does not work. It never has done, and it never will. And the result is that the Church, having abandoned her real task, has left humanity more or less to its own devices.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

“The primary task of the Church and of the Christian minister is the preaching of the Word of God.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

“When you are reading your Scriptures in this way—it matters not whether you have read little or much—if a verse stands out and hits you and arrests you, do not go on reading. Stop immediately, and listen to it. It is speaking to you, so listen to it and speak to it. Stop reading at once, and work on this statement that has struck you in this way.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

“In a sense the most approachable Person this world has ever seen was the Lord Jesus Christ.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“We accept what Scripture teaches as far as our doctrine is concerned; but when it comes to practice, we very often fail to take the Scriptures as our only guide. ... Dare I give an obvious illustration? The question of women preaching, and being ordained to the full ministry.”
― David Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“Which comes first with you, righteousness and holiness or experiences? There is no more urgently vital test that we can apply to ourselves than that. The proof of the life of God in the soul is that we say, “Though he slay me, yet will I love him.” I do not care what happens to me. If all goes wrong with me, it does not matter. I still desire him above everything else.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Experiencing the New Birth: Studies in John 3

“We have to be poor in spirit before we can be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“The Gospel edifies and evangelizes at the same time.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

“The Christian is confronted by two ways only, and if we are not on the strait and narrow way, we are on the wide and broad way.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

“My dear friends, from the devil's standpoint there is not the slightest difference between being puffed up with pride in yourself or spending the whole of your time condemning yourself. Either way the devil is very well-pleased. Any concentration upon self in any shape or form is of the devil.”
― Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
― Corrie ten Boom