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The Banner of Truth Trust is a Christian organisation which publishes books, organises conferences, and distributes a monthly magazine. You are what you read.

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Knox, who died 450 years ago today, writing to his mother-in-law. In a gospel-starved context, he knew where true hope was found. #JohnKnox450
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God is the sweetest friend, but the worst enemy. — Thomas Watson
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The Old Testament...Christ's favourite book, Christ's only book! The book He always read and always quoted. — John Calvin
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To pray to saints is idolatry advanced to blasphemy. —Thomas Watson
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'The beginning of repentance is the confession of guilt.' — John Calvin
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Satan never sets a dish before men that they do not love. —Thomas Watson
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Often God spares us because there are some who make intercession for us. —John Calvin
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How are you reading the Bible?
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Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart. ―Thomas Watson
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Works proceed from faith, not faith from works. —Augustine
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'Kneeling in time of prayer is a sign of humility.' — John Calvin
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'Always respond to any impulse to pray.' — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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The wickedness of men cannot change the election of God. —John Calvin
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'It is the will of God to have the Spirit of God use the Word of God to make the children of God look like the Son of God.' #bannerconf
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'A sin is two sins when it is defended.' — Henry Smith
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A man may wrong another as well by silence as by slander. —Thomas Watson
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They lose nothing who gain Christ. — Samuel Rutherford
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'Prayers flow from doctrine.' — John Calvin
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First we practise sin, then defend it, then boast of it. —Thomas Manton
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He was silent that He might be judged; he will not be silent when He begins to judge. — Augustine
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Humility is the only response we should have towards a God who has given everything for our sake. —John Calvin
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'A sinner does not decide for Christ; the sinner flies to Christ in utter helplessness and despair.' — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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To know Him is to know and have everything. —Martin Luther
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'Times are bad. God is good.' — Richard Sibbes
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'God wonderfully delivers his Church from death by death.' — John Calvin
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Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus to see Christ, but to be seen. —William Gurnall
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We are more sure to arise out of our graves than out of our beds. —Thomas Watson
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Above all knowledge, know Christ. —John Wesley
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When Christ is not known it is impossible to have any understanding in Scripture. —Martin Luther
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Patience is the fruit and proof of faith. — John Calvin
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There is no death of sin without the death of Christ. —John Owen
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'Humility is the repentance of pride.' — Nehemiah Rogers
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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration. —John Calvin
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There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. —Henry Martyn
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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ. —John Calvin
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'Prayer is the only witness to show whether we have faith or not.' — John Calvin
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'We can pray with confidence if we know that the Lord Jesus Christ is our Mediator.' — John Calvin
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All the trouble in the world today is due to the fact that man is not right with God, for it is because he is not right with God that he has gone wrong everywhere else. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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'God is always like himself.' — John Calvin
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A sinner does not 'decide' for Christ; the sinner 'flies' to Christ in utter helplessness and despair. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Christ did not become my Shepherd when he saved me. He sought and found me only because the Father, in eternity, had given me to him to be one of his sheep. —Ernie Reisinger
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Jonah was asleep in the ship, but at prayer in the whale's belly. —Thomas Watson on trouble being safer than prosperity.
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Wanting God’s guidance means seeking his will and not my own. —Sinclair Ferguson
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Holiness is the true evidence of our faith. —John Calvin
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Grace is favor shown to people who do not deserve any favor at all. We deserve nothing but Hell! If you think you deserve Heaven—then you are not a Christian. —D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Christ did not die to purchase this world for us. —Thomas Adams
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He walks in darkness who is not ruled by the fear of God. —John Calvin
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'Before praying, give thanks and before teaching, pray.' — Martin Luther
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'Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death.' — Thomas Brooks
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No mortal ever approaches God without being divinely drawn. —John Calvin
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'No man can know how to speak one word to the glory of Jesus Christ except it is given him, and that the Holy Ghost govern his tongue.' — John Calvin
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'Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.' —John Calvin
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'We cannot possibly exercise true confidence in prayer, except by resting firmly on God's Word.' — John Calvin
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Election is for the purpose of holiness. —Augustine
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I hate that preaching which tendeth to make hearers laugh. You cannot break men's hearts by jesting with them. —Richard Baxter
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Without His calling we cannot even will. —Augustine
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It is the powerful love of Christ which kills the love of sin, and kindles the love of holiness in the soul. — John Calvin
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'Whoever wants to arouse himself to devotion, should take up Psalms.' — Martin Luther
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'The whole life of man, until he is converted to Christ, is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.' — John Calvin
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Satan knows that nothing is more fit to lay waste to the kingdom of Christ than discord and disagreement among the faithful. —John Calvin
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Faith...the key which opens the gate which leads us to God. —John Calvin
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'The test of faith lies in prayer.' — John Calvin
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'Pride is always the companion of unbelief.' — John Calvin
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'Pride is the very image of the devil.' — Thomas Boston
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Sin must die or thy soul cannot live. — George Swinnock
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Life and trouble are married together. —Thomas Watson
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Where the Lord closes his holy mouth let us also stop our minds from going on further. —John Calvin
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'To hear' in Scripture, generally means 'to believe'. —John Calvin
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The name of God is more excellent than anything in the whole world. —John Calvin
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There are no ultimate atheists, only theists who argue against what, in the deepest recesses of their being, they know to be true. God is. —Sinclair Ferguson
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'A sinner does not "decide" for Christ; the sinner "flies" to Christ in utter helplessness and despair.' — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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'As God did not at first choose you because you were high, so He will not forsake you because you are low.' — John Flavel
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All earthly things are as salt water, that increases the appetite, but satisfies not. —Richard Sibbes
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God punishes most when he does not punish. —Thomas Watson
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True faith can no more be without holiness, than true fire without heat. —John Owen
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God not only saves upon believing, but gives believing itself. —Blaise Pascal
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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. —Jonathan Edwards
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When men seek to comprehend the power of God, it is like a fly attempting to devour all the mountains. —John Calvin
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Anything above God is idolatry. —Richard Sibbes
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'The most holy service we can render to God is to be employed in praising His name.' — John Calvin
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'I believe in predestination without cutting and trimming it, and I believe in responsibility without adulterating and weakening it.' — Charles H. Spurgeon
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'In prayer two things are necessary, faith and humility; by faith we rise up to God, and by humility we lie prostrate on the ground.' — John Calvin
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God punishes most when he does not punish. —Thomas Watson
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As the hearts of men are attracted to Jesus Christ, their minds are filled with reverence and love for the Scriptures. —John Calvin
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'The Christian teacher should pray before preaching — He will succeed more by pity in prayer than by gifts of oratory.' — Augustine
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We are so fascinated with the malignant pleasure of examining and detecting the faults of others. —John Calvin
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It is foolish to pray against sin and then sin against prayer. —John Trapp
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It is not enough that He has taken our nature to be His, unless He gives us also His nature to be ours. —John Owen
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Our greatest sins are those of the mind. — Thomas Goodwin
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God can pick sense out a confused prayer. — Richard Sibbes
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Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge. —John Calvin
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The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession. —Richard Sibbes
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'Almost all men are infected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge.' — John Calvin
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'A man who wastes his time and his strength in sloth offers himself to be a target for the devil, who is a wonderfully good rifleman and will riddle the idler with his shots: in other words, idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.' — Spurgeon
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'Without knowing something of the power of the Holy Spirit [the ministry] is a heart-breaking task.' — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Without Scripture, faith is an aimless gazing; without faith Scripture is a closed book...Faith and Scripture belong together. —Abraham Kuyper
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Our murmuring is the devil's music. —Thomas Watson
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God's love is printed in our hearts by His Holy Spirit. — John Calvin
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'God can easily turn our prayers into bread.' — John Calvin
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