Steven J. Lawson Quotes

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

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.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.

The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.

New truth is old heresy.

For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.

We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.

It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

Faith only glances at problems, but gazes upon Jesus.

There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one way to go to heaven.

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

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.

If you miss Christ you miss everything, and if you have Christ you have everything.

In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

The heart of the new birth is the new birth of the heart.

Your faith depends on the strength of its object...a puny god just won't do.

If Christ is not everything, He is nothing. He who has Christ has everything.

God has loved us in spite of us.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.