Donald Whitney Quotes

#1. The text of the Bible means what God inspired it to mean, not what it means to me.

Donald S. Whitney

#2. What if age didn't determine whether or not a person could truly understand what love was and whether it was real?

Karen Kingsbury

#3. When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.

M.F.K. Fisher

#4. My life is so bad that it's worse than it really is.

Brian Spellman

#5. Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

J. Philippe Rushton

#6. Refuse to see anything without seeing God in it. via Donald S. Whitney Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. There's Tommy, Tommy Lee the rock star, and Tommy the dad. I'm wearing several hats these days.

Tommy Lee

#8. Before judging anyone, judge yourself.

Zayn Malik

#9. My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

Ban Ki-moon

#10. Little input of God's Word results in little resemblance to God's Son.

Donald S. Whitney

#11. And in my own pastoral and personal Christian experience, I can say that I've never known a man or woman who came to spiritual maturity except through discipline. Godliness comes through discipline.

Donald S. Whitney

#12. I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline.

Donald S. Whitney

#13. You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

Donald Whitney

#14. All presented one face to the world, and kept another hidden. Nobody could survive in it otherwise.

John Connolly

#15. Self-awareness happens when we become aware of other people, things and places around us and how we are all connected.

Toni Sorenson

#16. Many of the great movements of God can be traced to a small group of people He called together to begin praying.

Donald S. Whitney

#17. Where am I going?- this is the question of your birth purpose on the earth

Sunday Adelaja

#18. So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

Donald S. Whitney

#19. The alternative to discipline is disaster. VANCE HAVNER

Donald S. Whitney

#20. I've got used to touring. If you make calculations of the nights spent in hotels in my life, multiplied by the tattoos I have for hundred.

Anthony Kiedis

#21. Consistent, father-led family worship is one of the best, steadiest, and most easily measurable ways to bring up children in the Lord's discipline and instruction.

Donald S. Whitney

#22. What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you've finished, you can't recall a thing you've read? It's better to read a small amount of Scripture and meditate on it than to read an extensive section without meditation.

Donald S. Whitney

#23. When there is little awareness of real need, there is little real prayer.

Donald S. Whitney

#24. Singing is the lowest form of communication.

Homer

#25. If you will not worship God seven days a week," said A. W. Tozer, "you do not worship Him on one day a week.

Donald S. Whitney

#26. But even though disciplining yourself is sometimes diffcult and involves struggle, self-discipline is not self-punishment. It is instead an attempt to do what, prompted by the Spirit, you actually want in your heart to do.

Donald S. Whitney

#27. I went to underground music studios. In the studios, I learned that you can make a movie without a permit.

Bahman Ghobadi

#28. Thus no other object on earth is as valuable as the Bible, for nothing else can provide anything as essential or eternal.

Donald S. Whitney

#29. Some wag remarked that the worst dust storm in history would happen if all church members who were neglecting their Bibles dusted them off simultaneously.

Donald S. Whitney

#30. Can we expect the flames of our worship of God to burn brightly in public on the Lord's Day when they barely flicker for Him in secret on other days?

Donald S. Whitney

#31. Martin Luther expressed God's expectation of prayer this way: "As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray."[2]

Donald S. Whitney

#32. The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.

Donald S. Whitney

#33. From matters as crucial as the death of Jesus, to those as mundane as eating and drinking, the Bible presents the glo ry of God as the ultimate priority and the definitive criterion by which we should evaluate everything.

Donald S. Whitney