Explore Quotes by John Nelson Darby

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

Let those who like society better have it.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

By one Spirit we are all baptised into one body.

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

Separation from evil is the necessary first principle of communion with Him ... Separation from evil is His principle of unity

God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

The Lord Jesus died for the ungodly. He was obedient at all costs : He bore everything, and went down into the dust of death, man's hatred, God's desertion, and Satan's power ; we find Him there at the cost of everything. Everything that was against us was done away. By one man's obedience many are made righteous.

This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this is what such doctrine tends to. All who have never been deeply convicted of sin, all persons in whom this conviction is based on gross external sins, believe more or less in freewill