J. Vernon McGee Quotes

Let me remind you that this is God's universe, and He is doing things His way. You may think you have a better way, but you don't have a universe to rule.

The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.

There are only two kinds of religion in the world...They all say, "Do, do, do." Only Christianity says, "Done." Christ has done it all.

What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.

Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache.

Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.

As someone has said, we either crucify or crown the Lord Jesus by our lives.

If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.

Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.

I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans.

If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life's storms.

You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.

Anywhere you can take Jesus Christ with you is all right to go.

I believe in the eternal security of the believer and in the insecurity of the make-believer.

God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.

There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.

In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God - we must be born from above.

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.

Satan never gets very far from the Bible. And every one of the cults, even Satanism, uses the Bible.

When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.

Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a "hope so." Faith is substance and evidence - substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.

Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

That all of God’s men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.

May God richly bless you, my beloved.

Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.

There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.

Don't tell me you're trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.

A poor believer [monetarily] certainly is looked down upon in certain churches, and yet he may be the richest man spiritually in that church.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

He is preeminent in creation because He is the Creator. He is preeminent in redemption for He is the Redeemer. He is preeminent in the church because He is the One who gave Himself for the church.

It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.

The greatest sin is sinning against love.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

Do-gooders--if theyd only do good.