Max Anders Quotes

No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

The health of marriage and the health of society are bound together; as one goes, so goes the other.

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.

Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.

The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.

Persistence in prayer brings results that casual prayer does not.

Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.

Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.

The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.

Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him.

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.