Quotes

• Next to knowing is knowing where to find out.
• "One of the first lessons we must learn in reading the Bible is to distinguish between that which is written to us and that which is written for us. Not all the Bible is directed to us, but all the Bible is for us." ~ J. Vernon McGee 2 Ti 3:16
• "The difference between a chestnut horse and and a horse chestnut is--one is a horse and one is a nut." ~ J. Vernon McGee Hermeneutics
• Open rebuke is love carefully concealed (Prov 27:5).
• "Love is unwavering commitment to another."  ~ Bob Enyart
• "Truth is hate to those who hate the truth." ~ Bob Enyart
• "There can be no mercy without truth." ~ Adrian Rogers Ps 85:10
• "The Word of God with the Spirit of God makes a child of God." ~ J. Vernon McGee.
• "The greatest sin is sinning against love." ~ J. Vernon McGee.
• "This book will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book." ~ J. Vernon McGee.
• "A hog has never said 'I need a bath'." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "Freedom is not doing what you want; it is doing what you ought." ~ Adrian Rogers
• Come to Jesus not for what he can do for you but for what he has done for you. Ro 5:8.
• Jesus spoke of Christianity as a banquet--never as a picnic. Lk 14:17.
•   "Never doubt in the dark what you learned in the light."  ~ Adrian Rogers
• The acid of grief tests the coin of belief.
• "You need: love, something to do, and hope. You can get all three in Jesus (Rogers)." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "If God is not just, God is not good." ~ Ronald L. Dart
• "Law without penalty is only advise." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "One of these days the dam of God's mercy will give way to his justice." ~ Adrian Rogers De 32:4; Isa 45:21
• "A fugitive is running away from home.  A vagabond has no home.  A stranger is away from home--but a pilgrim is headed home.  We're pilgrims.  We are headed home (Heb 11:13)."
• "God does business with those who mean business." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "We live by promises not by explanations." ~ Adrian Rogers
• The Lord beats a lot of barnacles off our hull. 
• "Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder." ~ Adrian Rogers Mt 25:41.
•   "The doors of hell are locked on the inside" The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis
• "The world perverts and inverts the word of God." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "New morality is just old sin." ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "New world order is old disorder (Ac 15:18)." ~ Adrian Rogers

•   "Man's own religion usually descends to the fleshly life to which they themselves practice." ~ Jim Andrews

• "Government is the opiate of the people." ~ Dennis Prager 

• "They can't human life in the womb but they look for it in outer space." ~ Adrian Rogers 

• "Libertarian = immoral conservative." ~ Bob Enyart. 

• Darkness is offended by the light. 

• "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"

• God is comfortable with sinners...not sin...sinners.  ~ David Jeremiah

• "Guilt tries to get rid of itself not sin." ~ Jim Andrews 

• "Sin will take you farther than you ever expected to go; it will keep you longer than you ever intended to stay, and it will cost you more than you ever expected to pay." ~ Deeper Still Event Series

• Lord, help me to cooperate with you so you don't have to operate on me.

• "Do you have a Bible that matches your life or a life that matches your Bible?" Ro 8 ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Possess your possessions." Ro 7 ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Stop trying. Start trusting." Ro 8 ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Quit crying.  Start praising." Ro 8 ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Money talks.  It says goodbye." ~ Adrian Rogers Mt 6:11

• To whom little is not enough nothing is enough.

• "Take care of the down side.  The upside will take care of itself." ~ Donald Trump Mt 6:34

• "Being a square keeps you from going around in circles." ~ J Vernon McGee 

• You cannot separate what you say from what you believe (Youssef, Lk 6:45).

• "Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel (Pr 20:17, KJV)."

• "Sometimes we must comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." ~ David Jeremiah

•   "There are pleasures and there are treasures.  You're going to have to choose one of the two." ~ Adrian Rogers. 

•   "He is either a liar, a lunatic, or Lord and God. You must make a choice." ~ C.S. Lewis

• "You are free to choose.  You are not free not to choose.  No choice is a choice.  You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "You can't be the land of the free if you're not the home of the brave." ~ "Newt" Gingrich

• "Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk." ~ J. Vernon McGee

• "When you reject the Creator, you worship the Creation (Ro 1:23)." ~ Bob Enyart 

•   "Faith is not a leap in the dark.  It is a step in the light (Heb 11:1)." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Superstition is believing something for no good reason (e.g. believing something without reasoning)." ~ Darrell Ferguson Jn 4:22

• "If you have a talking faith that is not a walking faith, you have a mocking faith." ~ Jim Andrews 

• "Faith is belief with legs on." ~ Adrian Rogers

•   "A slave serves because he has to.  An employee serves because he needs to.  A son serves because he wants to.  I'm all three."  ~ Adrian Rogers

•  "If you'll get your eye off that saint you've been praying to and onto the living Lord Jesus, you can be saved." ~ Tonilee Adamson 

• "You do not need a faith plus works.  You need a faith that works." ~ Jim Andrews

• A text taken out of context becomes pretext.

• "All a dead person can do is dead works."

• "Faith alone saves.  But the faith that saves is not alone." ~ John Calvin

• "Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8).  James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18)."  ~ Adrian Rogers

• "If you have no fruit, look for a wound.  If you have fruit look for a prune."

• "It's not about our works, it's all about Jesus working in us (Phil 2:13)." ~ Star R. Scott

• "If your religion has not changed your life, you'd better change your religion." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "You are not saved by your works.  You work because you're saved." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "You are not saved by the plan of salvation.  You are saved by the man of salvation." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "If you were not strangers of the world, the hounds would not bark at you."

•   "Trouble-- the acid that tests the genuineness of your faith."  

• "It came to pass.  It didn't come to stay." 

• "Success is living God's will each day.  Failure is succeeding in the wrong things." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Some men's dogmatism is grown up puppyism."   

• "There are some things we shouldn't be dogmatic about. There are other things that we should be bulldogmaitc about."  ~ Adrian Rogers 

• "A Christian with a witness in his heart is never at the mercy of a man with an argument in his mouth (1 Jn 5:10)."  ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Stalin's supporters had more PhDs than hardhats."  ~ Dennis Prager

• "You can dig a ditch so straight and true even God can see it through." 

• "It's possible to be a PhD and and S.O.B."

• "PhD - Phenomenal dud." ~ Adrian Rogers 

• "The opposite of truth is not error.  It's sin." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "You can build on him (1 Cor. 10:4) or stumble on him (1 Pet. 2:8).  He'll be a stepping stone (Ps 18:2) or stumbling stone (1 Cor 1:23, Luke 20:18)." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "What Jesus will do with you is determined on what you will do with him (Jn 3:36)." ~ Adrian Rogers 

• "Law excludes.  Grace includes (Book of Ruth)." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Men study science as god not the God of science." ~ Adrian Rogers 

• "You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA." ~ Bob Enyart 

• "When a scientists says he believes the Bible--that doesn't give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "If Genesis 3 is a myth then John 3 is a farce.  You must be born again." ~ Adrian Rogers

• ""You believe God (revelation) or you believe man (speculation)." J. Vernon McGee

• "Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more." ~ Cowper (Jas 4:4).

• "Frogs turn into princes, we call that a fairy tale in a book. Tadpoles turn into frogs, we call that science in a lab." ~ Adrian Rogers
   

• "I spent a lot of time trying to come to grips with my doubts when suddenly I realized I had better come to grips with what I believe (Eph 5:9)."
  ~ Tom Skinner

• "The church is harmed more by the termites on the inside than it is by the woodpeckers on the outside." ~ J. Vernon McGee

• "What the world calls diversity God calls perversity." ~ Adrian Rogers  

• "If we were more grateful, we would have more to be grateful for." ~ Jim Elliot

•  "Joy is the flag that is flown in the heart when the master is in residence."

• "Worship is all that I am responding to all that he is." ~ Adrian Rogers

• "Holiness is to the spiritual life what health is to the physical life." ~ J. Vernon McGee

•  "If you think man has messed up the world wait until you see what Jesus is going to do with it.  This planet was made disposable by sin." ~ John MacArthur

•  "Tell me who you keep company with and I'll tell you who you are." 

• "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."

• “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” ~ Mencius

• "Whoever is not being a friend of God is being an enemy of mine." ~ Jim Andrews

•   "Is God carrying you or are you carrying God?" ~ J. Vernon McGee 

• "The popular thing is to have a little sermonette given by a preacherette to Christianettes." ~ J. Vernon McGee

• "Are you practicing Churchianity or Christianity?"   
• "Some sermons don’t have enough gospel in them to make soup for a sick grasshopper."
• "The gospel is not sprinkling rose water on dead leaves.  It transforms lives." ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "God does not take in dirty laundry.  He takes in dirty sinners." ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "Ritualism is nothing more than a rut, and the only difference between a rut and a grave is the length and the depth." ~ Chuck Smith
• “When I was converted, I lost my religion.” --Dr. W.I. Carroll
• “Idolatrous worship of self is the religion of hell."  --David Jeremiah
• "Relationship is the difference between grace and law." ~ Charles Stanley
• "Not once upon a time.  Once for all time."  ~ Adrian Rogers
• "We either crucify or crown Jesus by our lives."  ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "I am more afraid of the profanity of the sanctuary than I am of the profanity of the street." ~ Dr. G. Campbell Morgan
• "Do-gooders--if they'd only do good."  ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "The faith that will not lead to confession will not lead to heaven." Ro 1:16 ~ Adrian Rogers  
  "We're called "nuts" but we're secured to a solid bolt." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "Wise men are still coming to Him." ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "If you have not found Jesus in the Bible, you have not been searching." ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "A wise person said that some people get into marriage for the same reason a tick gets on a dog: for what he can get out of it. The only problem is that in marriage there are two ticks and no dog. Your contentment is to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing."  ~ William Shakespeare
• "The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they be eighty years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away (Ps. 90:10, NASB)."
  Life like grass: it's sewn, it's grown, it's blown, it's gone. 
• "Procrastination and disobedience are two sides of the same coin-- sin."  ~ Adrian Rogers
• "You cannot have a 'come in Savior' and a 'stay out Lord' (Ro 14:9)." ~ Adrian Rogers  
• "We want to use God as a spare tire not the driving wheel." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God." ~ J. Vernon McGee
• "Your attitude toward the word of God is your attitude toward Jesus (Ps 37:4)." ~ David Jeremiah
• "You supply the will God supplies the power-- willpower."  ~ Adrian Rogers
• "Universalism--the religion for those who believe in nothing."
• "Better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved telling a lie."
• "Better to speak the truth that hurts and heals than to tell a lie that comforts and then kills." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "Better to be divided by truth than united in error." ~ Adrian Rogers
• "I'd rather be called cruel for being kind than be called kind for being cruel." ~ Robert Lee

• "Sometimes the church needs division.  Without division they cannot have multiplication." ~ Woodrow Kroll Jude 16
• "Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?" ~ Dennis Prager
• "Love is giving you what you need not what you deserve."
• "Joy is a rainbow over tears."
• "God won't give you a road map.  He'll give you a glory cloud (Ne 9:19)." ~ Adrian Rogers
• Peace = adequate resources.
• Prayer is humility and dependency on God.
• "Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God." ~ Charles Spurgeon
• "God saves from the guttermost to the uppermost." ~ M. Youssef
• "The flesh is a good servant but a bad master."
• "Feminists aren't feminine." Jo Scott
• "The future is assured. It's just the past that keeps changing."  ~ Russian joke
• "Do right. Risk the consequences." ~ Bob Enyart
• "The task is not yours to complete, but neither are you free to desist from it." ~ Pirke Avot 2:21
• "What can one be but frivolous about serious things? Without frivolity they are simply too tremendous." ~ G.K. Chesterton 2 Cor 5:11
   

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