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Eleven Quotes
From Sinclair Ferguson’s
Maturity: Growing Up and Growing On in the Christian Life
- Paul tells us that this was a central goal in his ministry: he worked hard to ‘present everyone mature in Christ’ (Col. 1:28-29). (p. 3)
- Mature Christians possess the qualities which only Jesus Christ can produce, because he alone has exhibited them perfectly. (p. 7)
- We can hardly fail to notice that this love Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 13 is really a transcription of the life and character of the mature manhood of Jesus, the one who was filled with the Spirit. (p. 13)
- Nothing Christ takes from us is ever a waste. (p. 46)
- For rather than destroy the purposes of God, afflictions in our lives form an important part of those purposes. (p. 77)
- The basic principle is this: Learning how to keep your way pure as a young man will provide a firm foundation for your whole life. (p. 99)
- The sheer power of the word expounded and applied leaves its holy imprint on us. It illumines our minds; it enflames our affections; it draws our will to bow to it. (p. 110)
- Tests, trials, and temptations abound in the Christian life. If we are to grow to maturity we must learn how to handle them. (p. 113)
- Because now, in Christ, we are righteous in Jesus Christ himself. (p. 141)
- If we are ‘in Christ’ all that he has accomplished for us has become our inheritance. (p. 180)
- There is often a critical stage in spiritual life when we begin to grow from spiritual infancy to the beginnings of maturity. (p. 215)
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MATURITY: GROWING UP AND GOING ON IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, by Sinclair B. Ferguson