Top 76 Steven Lawson Quotes
#1. God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.
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#2. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
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#3. It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.
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#4. Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.
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#5. It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.
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#6. Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.
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#7. Predestination ... and salvation are clean taken out of our hands, and put in the hands of God only ... for we are so weak and so uncertain, that if it stood in us, there would of a truth be no man saved; the devil, no doubt, would deceive us.23
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#8. We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.
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#9. In Christ God loved us, His elect and chosen, before the world began, and reserved us unto the knowledge of his Son and of His holy gospel.30
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#10. If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God's Word into our sermons.8 His gospel preaching was grounded
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#11. Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.
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#12. If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.
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#13. Your faith depends on the strength of its object ... a puny god just won't do.
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#14. There is a kind of preaching that God blesses, specifically the proclamation that exalts the crucified Christ by the power of the Spirit. Conversely, there is a kind of preaching that God does not bless, a mere echoing of man's empty wisdom that is devoid of Christ.
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#15. Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.
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#16. We do not merely add Jesus Christ to our lives and continue in the same direction. Following Christ means we stop, turn around, and pursue Him.
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#17. Every decision and direction must come under this overarching goal of bringing glory to God.
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#18. There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.
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#19. Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.
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#20. We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.
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#21. The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.
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#22. As you preach, stay in the text, give honor to Christ and He will use you
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#23. Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.
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#24. When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.
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#25. If you miss Christ you miss everything, and if you have Christ you have everything.
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#26. There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one way to go to heaven.
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#27. What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing - except his sin - to His salvation, not even his faith.
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#28. To preach the gospel is to proclaim with trumpet tongue and flaming zeal the unsearchable riches of Christ Jesus, so that men may hear, and understanding, may turn to God with full purpose of heart.30
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#29. We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.
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#31. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard of no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.
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#32. May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43
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#33. The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.
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#35. Expository preaching consists in the explanation and application of a passage of Scripture. Without explanation it is not expository; without application it is not preaching.32
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#36. There shall be in the church a fleshly seed of Abraham and a spiritual; a Cain and an Abel; an Ishmael and an Isaac; an Esau and a Jacob; as I have said, a worker and a believer; a great multitude of them that be called, and a small flock of them that be elect and chosen.31
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#37. Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.
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#38. If Christ is not everything, He is nothing. He who has Christ has everything.
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#39. The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.
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#40. A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.
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#41. God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 - John MacArthur
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#42. If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.
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#43. These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.
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#44. Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.
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#45. No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.
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#46. Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.
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#47. If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?
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#48. A cross without offense in the world is a cross without power in the world.
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#50. In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.
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#51. The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.
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#52. The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.
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#53. If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.
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#54. The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.
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#55. The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.
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#56. By grace (that is to say, by favor) we are plucked out of Adam, the ground of all evil, and grafted in Christ, the root of all goodness.28 You are chosen for Christ's sake to the inheritance of eternal life.29
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#57. Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.
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#58. It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.
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#59. The doctrines known as Calvinism are not something that emerged late in church history, but rather are that which takes its origins in the teachings of Jesus.1 - James Montgomery Boice
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#60. Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.
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#61. If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.
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#62. All men of God must take forth the banner of truth, and once more valiantly proclaim the magnificent sovereignty of God in man's regeneration. May such preaching ring from pulpits today.
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#63. The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.
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#64. If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.
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#65. If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.
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#66. Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.
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#67. He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.
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#68. For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.
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#69. With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.
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#71. You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.
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#72. In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.
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#73. No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.
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#74. Miracles of grace must be the seals of our ministry; who can bestow them but the Spirit of God? Convert a soul without the Spirit of God! Why, you cannot even make a fly, much less create a new heart and a right spirit."48
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#75. At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.
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#76. Lloyd-Jones believed the man who is called to preach comes under a sobering humility. He believed that this person is overwhelmed with a deep sense of his own personal unworthiness for such a high and holy task and is often hesitant to move forward to preach for fear of his own inadequacies.
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