Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
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The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
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Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
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Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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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.
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Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.
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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.
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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.
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There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
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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.
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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.
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Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.
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If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
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The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.
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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.
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How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
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In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.
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Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.
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A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.
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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.
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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.
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Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
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