Top 80 Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
#1. Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. There is no such thing as a harmless addition to the gospel.
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
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#10. It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.
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#11. Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.
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#12. Someone has said that people live their lives crucified between two thieves - the regrets of yesterday and the anxieties of tomorrow.
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#13. You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.
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#14. A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.
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#15. Each temptation leaves us better or worse; neutrality is impossible.
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#16. Temptation is His X-ray machine, revealing the hidden conflicts that need attention.
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#17. Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.
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#18. 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.
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#19. We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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.
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#24. Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
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#25. Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.
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#27. He is among us even when we cannot see Him and when our grief distorts reality. There are many tears in our hearts that never reach our eyes. There are times of darkness and betrayal that make us wonder how we can live another day. As for God, He seems far away, uninterested, and absent.
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#28. Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
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#29. The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.
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#30. He allows us the luxury of difficult choices so that we can prove our love for Him. These are our opportunities to choose God rather than the world.
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#31. Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
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#32. What this stranger - Jesus - did for them, He will do for us. He takes no dreams from us He does not return; He raises no hopes He does not fulfill; He gives us no longings that shall not be satisfied. The answer He gave these discouraged disciples becomes our answer too.
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#33. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.
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#34. 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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#35. Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.
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#36. Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.
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#37. Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
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#38. There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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#39. Why does God command sinners to do what they cannot? "But God commands something which we cannot do, in order that we may know what we ought to ask of him." 4
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#40. Unity, unless it is based on agreement regarding the content of the gospel, would not be worth the price.
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#41. Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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#45. Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it's a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.
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#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. Sinful habits are usually indicative of unresolved conflicts.
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#49. God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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#50. The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
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#51. 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.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work He has left to do in our lives.
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#54. Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
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#55. Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
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#56. Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
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#57. Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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#58. Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.
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#60. There's no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
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#61. 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!
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#62. Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man's (or woman's) thoughts and attitudes.
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#63. There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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#64. Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. James wrote, "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone
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#68. 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.
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#69. 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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#70. History has to repeat itself," said Woody Allen, "because nobody was listening the first time around.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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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#73. Our sin is never a private matter. We cannot say, It only hurts me.
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#74. Given the popular widespread misconceptions of Christianity, it is time we returned to the basics. If we don't, thousands of people who believe they are Christians will discover in the day of judgment that they were misled.
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#75. I thank God for the way he made you, distinct, special and unique. You were not made from a common mold.
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#76. The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.
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#77. Clearly God does not shield us from circumstances where we are vulnerable to sin.
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#78. How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
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#79. 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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#80. When you doubt God's goodness, you hug sins tightly to your bosom, afraid that God will rob you of your crutch, your pastime, your pleasure.
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