Top 57 Calvin Miller Quotes
#1. With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
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#2. To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.
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#3. Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?
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#4. Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.
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#5. Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.
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#6. Life found itself alive and somehow knew its opposite was death. We are ever being born, or dying, and the thrill of choosing is ours. Only once, must we be born without our own consent. Only once, must we die without our own permission
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#7. Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination.
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#8. Passion is the soul of intensity. The speaker who truly loves God may or may not lead others to believe it, but the speaker who doesn't is only a philosopher whose ideas are too bland to be important.
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#9. Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
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#10. But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.
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#11. Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.
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#12. It is strange how oftentimes the air speaks.
We are sane as long as we hear voices when there are none.
We are insane when we hear nothing and worse we are deaf.
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#13. A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.
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#14. Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
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#15. Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
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#16. Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.
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#17. Preachers, however eloquent they are, are rarely heard as readily as pastors. After all, shepherds are sheep lovers, and the sheep are dependent upon their shepherds, who love them even before they listen.
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#18. Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.
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#19. Just because the pastors have preached hundreds of sermons in one place does not give them the liberty of skipping the work of audience analysis for even one single Sunday.
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#20. The world is looking for answers. If you have some of them, for goodness' sake spit 'em out. The world is looking for servants of God whose yes is yes. How elementary, how refreshing.
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#21. When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!
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#22. The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.
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#23. The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.
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#24. We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.
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#25. In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.
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#26. Do not God's visitations unnerve us? But why? Because He never comes to us without asking us to do something. We never know what He will ask of us, but we know that we will be overwhelmed by our feelings of inadequacy
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#27. Axiom #3: When told how to apply sermons specifically, most people over-congratulate themselves on how biblically they already live while thinking of others who could really use the sermon.
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#28. Bless your critics for their honesty. They do not criticize you to be a blessing to you, but the end product may be the same.
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#29. The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.
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#30. Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold - where we trip is where the treasure lies.
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#31. CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.
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#33. "And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life, then I celebrated its arrival in my heart. I made my celebration so loud and boisterous, I prohibited all gloom from attending the celebration" ...
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#34. Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.
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#35. With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.
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#36. One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.
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#37. A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.
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#38. Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
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#39. It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.
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#40. Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.
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#41. Teach me the wilderness simplicity.
Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,
as the threshold of all that really matters.
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#42. Audience analysis is also the most formidable work of the local pastor.
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#43. We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...
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#44. The Bible never says those who believe in God will be saved; only those who believe that He had a Son who rose from the dead can be saved (Rom. 10:9). Talk about narrow doctrine; we who have accepted Christ as
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#45. We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.
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#46. Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.
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#47. After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.
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#48. Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.
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#49. Anytime our sermons become confessional, they become more powerful.
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#50. If anybody is left behind in a congregation of a thousand, the preacher has not preached well.
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#51. Edward Markquart, a brilliant homoletician, wrote: People want their preachers to be authentic human beings ... who experience the same feelings and struggles as the laity, who do not hide behind the role of reverend so and so.
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#52. Much of Christmas' beauty is in its sameness. The same traditions. The same meals. The same songs. The same story. Yet each Christmas is a little different.
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#53. Still nobody knows better than those who preach that preaching is an art in which a studied, professional sinner tells the less studied sinners how they ought to believe, behave, and serve.
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#54. Humanity is fickle. They may dress for a morning coronation and never feel the need to change clothes for an execution in the afternoon. So Triumphal Sundays and Good Fridays always fit comfortably into the same April week.
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#55. When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.
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#56. Saturdays and Mondays were Sundays' bookends. On Saturdays preachers were neurotic planning what they would say, and on Mondays they were neurotic for having said it."7
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#57. Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
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