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“Supreme love for God orients our affections and orders our desires and integrates our loves.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

“The heavenly mind-set is profoundly earthy, but it is fundamentally oriented by the glory of Christ.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

“Idolatry is insane precisely because it ruins the enjoyment of the gift that we’ve turned into a god.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

“faithful gospel proclamation must include a robust theology of the goodness of God’s gifts in creation.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

“Christianity is a paradoxical religion in that it is both world-affirming and world-denying.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts

“Any gospel which says only what you must do and never announces what Christ has done is no gospel at all.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“The conscience is no substitute for the Bible and must never be in opposition to it.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“One of the main motivations for obedience is the pleasure of God.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“God’s mercy does not automatically produce obedience. We must be told to obey and then go do it.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“Christian spirituality does not rest on mysticism; it rests in a Mediator.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“Fellowship with Christ does not exist apart from fealty to Christ.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“when it comes to sanctification, it’s more important where you’re going than where you are.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“The best-looking Christian is the one growing by the Spirit into the likeness of Christ.”
― Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness: Filling the Gap between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness

“Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.”
― Keith A. Mathison, A Reformed Approach to Science and Scripture

“God created you so he could receive glory from you and receive glory through you.”
― Tim Challies, Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity

“So long as Jesus Christ is there, in heaven before God for us, our salvation will last.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“Perhaps your free spirit needs less freedom and more faithfulness.”
― Kevin DeYoung, Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

“Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God,”
― Edward T. Welch, What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?: Answers to the Big Questions of Life

“The thing or person you trust in is actually the object of your worship. Look”
― Edward T. Welch, What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?: Answers to the Big Questions of Life

“If you want to know more about yourself, turn to Jesus. When”
― Edward T. Welch, What Do You Think of Me? Why Do I Care?: Answers to the Big Questions of Life

“Jesus' sinlessness should not be equated with emotionlessness.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“Seeing human need with perfect clarity, Jesus felt it with unparalleled intensity.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“What the prophets of God did spiritually, the Prophet of God did quite literally and physically.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“In undiluted monergism, He called the galaxies into being, and He gives life to the dead in the same way”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“God possesses personal being in a unified, uncreated, eternal, tri-personal manner.”
― Sinclair B. Ferguson, In Christ Alone: Living the Gospel-Centered Life

“The usefulness of an elder will depend in the long run more on his character than on his gifts and knowledge.”
― David Dickson, The Elder and His Work

“The family—how much of a nation’s happiness and prosperity depends on that institution as a nursery, a school, a society, a sanctuary, a little church, and an emblem of the great family—“the whole family,” part of which is in heaven, and part still on earth! There”
― David Dickson, The Elder and His Work

“By such means as the inculcating of parental instruction, the institution of classes for the children and young people of each congregation, the Church of Christ must seek to do the duty which she undertook when she received these little ones into the fold of the visible Church. She is not at liberty to make over her duty into the hands of parents, any more than parents are to throw over their responsibility on the Church. The”
― David Dickson, The Elder and His Work

“As “friends of the Bridegroom,” to be helps and witnesses to the betrothal of sinners to Jesus; to stand by and see the salvation of God; to watch the operations of his hand; to guide and encourage his ransomed ones on their way Zionward; and to see many of them safe home before himself,—this is the privilege of a faithful elder. It”
― David Dickson, The Elder and His Work