Quotes from Sinclair Ferguson
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
— Sinclair Ferguson
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
— Sinclair Ferguson
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
— Sinclair Ferguson
Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.
— Sinclair Ferguson
The greatest privilege any of us can have is this: we can know God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
— Sinclair Ferguson
You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new,' in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father.' This conviction, that we can speak of the Master of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith.
— Sinclair Ferguson
Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.
— Sinclair Ferguson
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.
— Sinclair Ferguson