Joel R Beek

“The love of Christ is insatiable. The more you experience His redeeming love, the more you desire it. The more you desire it, the more you want to dwell on it. The more you dwell on it, the more you cherish it and are satisfied by it. You can never ‘mind’ Christ’s love too often, since his love knows no bounds.”

“A believer cannot persist in high levels of assurance while he continues in low levels of holiness.”

“Every person in the world is by nature a slave to sin. The world, by nature, is held in sin’s grip. What a shock to our complacency—that everything of us by nature belongs to sin.”

“Do not expect to grow in holiness if you spend little time alone with God and do not take His Word seriously.”

“Faith is not bare knowledge or passive persuasion but the embrace of Christ by the heart, resulting in personal knowledge of God.”

“The gospel fulfills the law through Christ, who fulfilled it by His death and is now risen again for our justification.”

“Preaching was uniquely honored by God ‘in that it serveth to collect the church and to accomplish the number of the elect’ and also ‘it driveth away the wolves from the folds of the Lord.’”
 “Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him. Instead, He had to become like us so that He could raise us up to be like Him.”

“God’s Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.”

“You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.”

“The primary ground of assurance is rooted in the promises of God, but those promises must become increasingly real to the believer through the subjective evidences of grace and the internal witness of the Holy Spirit.”
 “In short, doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; and politically, it aimed to be scriptural and balanced.”

“Christ will receive all who come to Him, but Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in them.”

“Some of us have little spiritual vitality because we fail to feed on Christ day by day. Over time, we become spiritually anorexic.”

“Experimental preaching is discriminatory preaching. It clearly defines the difference between Christian and non-Christian, opening the kingdom of heaven to one and shutting against the other.”

“Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully.”

“Many forget that most of the greatest theologians God has given to the church were also pastors and teachers in the local church.”

“As Thomas Brooks said, ‘A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.’”

“There is no thought, no word, no act, and no area of human life that is not affected by sin.”

 “The covenant of grace forms the heart of salvation itself.”

 “No vocation on this side of heaven is as privileged or rewarding as Christian ministry.”

“Exhibit as much as you can of a glorious Christ. Yea, let the motto upon your whole ministry be: Christ is all.”

“God, through the Law, His alien work, brings man to despair and humility and to a recognition of his need, and through the Gospel, His appropriate work, He gives man faith and the knowledge of His forgiveness.”

“The constant challenge in Christian theology is to preach the whole counsel of God, while not emphasizing one point of doctrine in a way that denies another.”

“The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.”