Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

It is not enough to do God's work; it must be done in His way and for His credit.

Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God.

Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.

Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.

Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s (or woman’s) thoughts and attitudes.

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero.

Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

We cannot say no to temptation without saying yes to something far better.

God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.

Milk many cows but make your own butter.

Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.