Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Online

QUOTES

From Life in the Spirit: An Exposition of Ephesians 5:18 - 6:9, published by Baker Books.

"I venture to lay it down as a rule that a Christian man should not accept an invitation to a social occasion without his wife. There is irreparable damage done to many marriages because men meet alone in their clubs without their wives... If it is a social occasion, something into which a wife can enter, she should enter, and it is the business of the husband to see to it that she does enter. I suggest that all Christian husbands should automatically refuse every such invitation which comes to them alone and does not include their wives." - pg 217

"You can organize marches and make your protests. It all comes to nothing, and makes not the slightest difference to anyone. But if you have a large number of individual Christians in a nation, or in the world, then and only then can you begin to expect Christian conduct on the international and national level. I do not listen to a man who tells me how to solve the world's problems if he cannot solve his own personal problems. If a man's home is in a state of discord, his opinions about the state of the nation or the state of the world are purely theoretical." - pg 232,233

"Whether we like it or not, a breakdown in home-life will eventually lead to a breakdown everywhere. This is, surely, the most menacing and dangerous aspect of the state of society at this present time. Once the family idea, the family unit, the family life is broken up - once that goes, soon you will have no other allegiance." - pg 245

From The Puritans: Their Origins and Their Successors

"Religion is man searching for God; Christianity is God seeking man, manifesting Himself to him, drawing Himself unto him." - pg 380

"It is always a bad sign when men read a text and then shut the Bible and put it on one side, and proceed to preach their prepared sermon." - pg 382