Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Sinclair B. Ferguson, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Sinclair B. Ferguson quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 101 Sinclair B. Ferguson quotes for you to read and share.

Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000017916
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000028099
The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000078786
How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000095763
An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000120415
Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000148664
you cannot destroy love for the world merely by showing its emptiness. The world-centered love of our hearts can be expelled only by a new love and affection-for God and from God. The love of the world and the love of the Father cannot coexist in the same heart -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000172166
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
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000192967
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
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000217629
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000243147
Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000282721
Thus the motivation, energy and drive for holiness are all found in the reality and power of God's grace in Christ. And so if I am to make any progress in sanctification, the place where I must always begin is the gospel of the mercy of God to me in Christ Jesus. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000344846
It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000355760
What is a godly pastor, after all, but one who is like God, with a heart of grace; someone who sees God bringing prodigals home and runs to embrace them, weeps for joy that they have been brought home, and kisses them - asking no questions - no qualifications or conditions required? -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000413097
The notion that we are children of God, his own sons and daughters, lies at the heart of all Christian theology, and is the mainspring of all Christian living. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000466138
Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000467526
The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears ... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000468904
Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000505070
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000530143
So long as Jesus Christ is there, in heaven before God for us, our salvation will last. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000560363
But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit. It is the natural instinct of the once-antinomian prodigal who, when awakened, thinks in terms of working his way back into the favor of his father.38 -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000586854
God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000588907
Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000609817
...we are always entertaining the delusion that we will go on forever in this world. The result is that the very things which ought to be of assistance to us in our pilgrimage through life, become chains which bind us. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000612747
Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes its impact on us. But they never form the warrant for repentance and faith. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000623157
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000625047
Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000661281
Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest ... For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000683639
You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19 -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000688923
Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000703983
The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000724428
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
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000738896
Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000805798
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others! -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000814161
pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000817014
Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000837427
God protects us from Satan even at times when we are not aware of His protection. But how can we develop Jesus-like discernment? By Spirit-aided digestion of the solid food of God's wisdom. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000871451
I began to read for myself and realised that here was somebody who could teach me profound biblical theology, get inside my heart with his spiritual analysis, and help me to become a minister of the gospel, which is what I wanted to be. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000874949
The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000888599
Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000902892
The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000922522
Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000946931
Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000964031
No short-cut that tries to bypass the patient unfolding of the true character of God, and our relationship to him as his children, can ever succeed in providing long-term spiritual therapy. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000971475
Pharisees lived "according to the strictest party of . . . religion."3 The name itself is probably derived from the root "to separate." Pharisaism was essentially a conservative "holiness movement." So -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000986046
Contentment is an undervalued grace. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000993083
The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 000993638
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001002755
Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001009927
Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001010168
The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001026836
The fallacy here? The subtle movement from seeing forsaking sin as the fruit of grace that is rooted in election, to making the forsaking of sin the necessary precursor for experiencing that grace. Repentance, which is the fruit of grace, thus becomes a qualification for grace. This -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001076099
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. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001147631
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001207557
God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001236008
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ... it is theological. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001240877
The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001250822
The jewels of spiritual service are always quarried in the depths of spiritual experience. Never is this more true than in revival. Bend the church and save the people. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001263813
As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001278171
This is the key to the enjoyment of assurance precisely because assurance is our assurance that he is a great Savior and that he is ours. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001286759
If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life of absolute sin-less-ness - if you desire anything less, you are fighting against God's desire for you. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001302746
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001310130
True Christian liberty, unlike the various "freedom" or "liberation" movements of the secular world, is not a matter of demanding the "rights" we have. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001310559
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001333346
When we see salvation whole, its every single part is found in Christ, And so we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001358596
Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001408300
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001410849
By way of contrast he wanted to stress that the gospel's center is found in Jesus Christ himself, who has been crucified for sin and raised for justification, with the inbuilt implication that Christ himself thus defined and described should be proclaimed as able to save all who come to him. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001413212
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001453156
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. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001455037
If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001464320
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001481070
These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001490998
The offer of the gospel is to be made not to the righteous or even the repentant, but to all. There are no conditions that need to be met in order for the gospel offer to be made. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001509006
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. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001540337
There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001552522
Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over? -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001580780
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001596463
Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001597582
The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israel. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001602278
God possesses personal being in a unified, uncreated, eternal, tri-personal manner. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001631849
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
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001637421
Karl Barth once wittily remarked, One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001645664
Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is no grace that can be attached to you transferred from Him. All there is, is Christ and your soul. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001667313
Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001670879
If the benefits of Christ's work (justification, reconciliation, adoption, and so on) are abstracted from Christ himself, and the proclamation of the gospel is made in terms of what it offers rather than in terms of Christ himself, the question naturally arises: To whom can I offer these benefits? -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001678983
Secular humanism debases the human. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001689915
The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001694333
Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work, because the God who made him was a 'working God.' Man was made to be creative, with his mind and his hands. Work is part of the dignity of his existence. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001695745
The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001696992
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001712571
We can never reflect too much on God's grace. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001716586
When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001754386
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001801331
There had been occasions when David could have seized position and power by means that would have compromised his commitment to the Lord. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001802357
God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001802409
No one can will the will to will what it will not will! -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001826370
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001840079
salvation becomes ours in Christ and not merely through Christ. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001856595
We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001856596
What the prophets of God did spiritually, the Prophet of God did quite literally and physically. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson
Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes : pic 001856597
The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it. -- Sinclair B. Ferguson