Erwin W. Lutzer
Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.Collection: Encouragement
No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.Collection: Priorities
There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.Collection: God
You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.Collection: Stronger
If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.Collection: Change
Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.Collection: Temptation
The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.Collection: Christian
How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.Collection: Heart
God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.Collection: Character
We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.Collection: Heart
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.Collection: Spiritual
People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.Collection: People
Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.Collection: Heart
Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.Collection: Christian
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.Collection: Self
Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.Collection: Mean
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.Collection: Christian
Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.Collection: Taken
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch their agenda to the civil rights movement, but I point out that this is illegitimate for a number of reasons. Number one, no black person has ever left his black-ness or changed his black-ness, but plenty of people have come out of the homosexual movement. What we need to do is distinguish between race and behavior.Collection: Sex
Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.Collection: Jesus
It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.Collection: Christian
To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.Collection: Believe
The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!Collection: Patience
The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.Collection: Inspirational Life
Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.Collection: Pain
Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.Collection: Prayer
Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.Collection: Christian
We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.Collection: Temptation
Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.Collection: Children
Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.Collection: Christian
To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.Collection: Christian
Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.Collection: Hurt
Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.Collection: Christian
God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.Collection: Character
God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.Collection: World
The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.Collection: Pain
Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.Collection: Giving
If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.Collection: Sorrow
Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.Collection: Emotional
God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.Collection: Essentials
Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.Collection: Mean
Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.Collection: Men
Milk many cows but make your own butter.Collection: Cows
Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!Collection: Christmas
We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.Collection: Eye
I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.Collection: Christian
We need a broad-based coalition that is way beyond the bounds of Christianity to be able to help people to understand that there is a groundswell of support for the marriage amendment and for opposition to same-sex marriages.Collection: Sex
Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.Collection: Christmas
Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.Collection: Mind
Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.Collection: Spiritual