Ray Stedman Quotes

#1. God comforts us to make us comforters, not to make us comfortable.

Ray C. Stedman

#2. In his sufferings, Job has learned that God is greater than his theology. This is a truth we all need to learn. We tend to think we know how God will act in every situation. And the moment we have God neatly confined in our little theological box. He does something surprising!

Ray C. Stedman

#3. You can only achieve what you aim for - so shoot for the stars!!!

Ginger Gelsheimer

#4. When we contact each other, we change each other. We are constantly making each other.

John Powell

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#10. Those who think godly living makes them invulnerable to trouble are living in a fantasy world. - 2 Timothy 3:12

Ray C. Stedman

#11. Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#12. The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Swami Sivananda

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

Ray Stedman

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

Ray Stedman