Erwin W. Lutzer Christian Quotations

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.

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.

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

To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The ability to make judgments lies at the heart of Christian living. Unless we are able to judge doctrine, lifestyles, and entertainment, unless we are able to distinguish between outer appearance and inner character, we just might miss the purpose for which God placed us on this earth. We might end up accepting a stone for bread and a snake for a fish.

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.

I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.