109 Quotes by Sinclair B. Ferguson

The benefits of the gospel are in Christ. They do not exist apart from him. They are ours only in him. They cannot be abstracted from him as if we ourselves could possess them independently of him.

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.

To be free from the possibility of discouragements would be more ‘spiritual’ than Jesus-and therefore not truly spiritual at all.

So long as Jesus Christ is there, in heaven before God for us, our salvation will last.

Jesus’ sinlessness should not be equated with emotionlessness.

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.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

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.

Thus the essence of legalism is rooted not merely in our view of law as such but in a distorted view of God as the giver of his law.