Lewis Sperry Chafer Quotes

#1. To love is to tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's sweet.

Pablo Neruda

#2. The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#3. Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Myles Munroe

#4. The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#5. The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#6. Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#7. The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#8. Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#9. It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#10. One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

William Hazlitt

#11. Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#12. With brothers you become friends. Some you hang out with more than others. You talk to one about the other a little more. You get mad at them. Then, you love them. Then, you apologize. You have to apologize whether you want to or not. You have to. That's your brother.

Tito Jackson

#13. Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

George Shinn

#14. True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore, it lays no obligation upon the saved one to complete it himself, or to make after payments of service for it.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#15. Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#16. She feels like someone has planted a tree in her chest and then pressed fast foward on the world, branches growing and twisting and pushing her apart from the inside.

Carrie Ryan

#17. His leading is only for those who are already committed to do as He may choose. To such it may be said: "God is able to speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#18. When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Lewis Sperry Chafer

#19. There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#20. What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.

Dorothea Dix