The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981 Quotes

“To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the true extent of their need.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

“Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

“The expository preacher is not one who 'shares his studies' with others, he is an ambassador and a messenger authoritatively delivering the Word of God to men.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

“Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his doctrine of the church left him with little sympathy for that attitude.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

“From the experience of these years Dr. Lloyd-Jones was immovably confirmed in a truth which he had first seen in the New Testament. It was that evangelism is pre-eminently dependent upon the quality of the Christian life which is known and enjoyed in the church.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

“Some who were not yet ready to venture into the chapel on Sundays might well put in their first appearance on a Saturday night to see what Y dyn bach ('the little man') had got to say. (The Welsh term has an element of affection in it not obvious in the English)”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981