Ray Stedman Quotes

#1. God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

Ray Stedman

#2. Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God's personal plan for our lives.

Ray Stedman

#3. It has always seemed unfair to me that many churches (and some individual Christians) keep careful records on how many converts they make to Christianity, but never keep any record of how many they drive away from Christ!

Ray Stedman

#4. To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

Ray Stedman

#5. True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

Ray Stedman

#6. True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

Ray Stedman