"What does it mean for four years to spend trying to get a doctorate in philosophy from a secular university?  It's really simple.  I spent four years in a dark room, blind folded, looking for a black cat that was not there." ~ Michael Youssef link

Next to knowing is knowing where to find out.

"When your name is mentioned in heaven, what do they say?" ~ Michael Youssef He 12:1

"The difference between a chestnut horse and a horse chestnut is--one is a horse and one is a nut." ~ J. Vernon McGee Hermeneutics

"Obeying Jesus is not negotiable if you want to call yourself a true Christian...Unless you're willing to obey Jesus, it's all talk." Lk 6:46 ~ Michael Youssef

"Not everyone who's going to church is going to heaven....Not everyone who calls themselves a Christian will make it to heaven." ~ Michael Youssef Re 21:8

“Wise builders are the ones who follow Christ. Foolish builders are the ones who follow their own instincts, desires and ideas. They both hear God’s words. Some hear it and obey. Others hear it and disobey.” Mt 7:24-27 ~ Michael Youssef

If you marry a child of the devil, you can expect to have trouble with your father-in-law (2 Co 6:14).

Open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed (Prov 27:5).

"Love is wickedness if it has the wrong object." ~ Daryl Ferguson Ex 20:17

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." ~ Patrick Henry Jn 8:32

“It’s not tomorrow in the sky by and by—it’s now.”  ~ Patrick Winfrey

“You can think whatever you want; but, you can only know the truth.” ~ Zane Mackler

“Knowledge is the awareness of truth.” ~ Bob Enyart

“Time is the beginning and endless, present, continuous, irreversible, future to past, dimension of change.” Bob Enyart link 

"I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm a conspiracy analyst." ~ Gore Vidal

"Sin is the glory of God not honored, the holiness of God not reverenced, the greatness of God not admired, the power of God not praised, the truth of God not sought, the wisdom of God not esteemed, the beauty of God not treasured, the goodness of God not savored, the faithfulness of God not trusted, the promises of God not believed, the commandments of God not obeyed, the justice of God not respected, the wrath of God not feared, the grace of God not cherished, the presence of God not prized, the person of God not loved." ~ John Piper Ro 1:18–32

“If you’re not faithful, don’t talk about faith.” ~ Jonathan Cahn Mt 24:12

"Justice denied is justice delayed." ~ Bob Enyart Is 14:9

"Payday someday." ~ Adrian Rogers Re 21:8

Love is giving you what you need not what you deserve.

"We are not the moral majority.  We are the Master's minority.  If we were part of the many, there'd be something wrong with us." ~ Adrian Rogers Jn 15:18, Phil 4:8, Eph 6:12, Jas 1:20

"Did you know that those people who are talking the most about freedom--I'm talking about the new morality...they talk more about freedom and have less of it.  The bible calls them the servants of sin...They say they're free but Satan says jump and they say how high?  They are slaves to their lust.  They are slaves to their passion. They are slaves to their temper.  They are slaves to their impulses--but Jesus sets us free." ~ Adrian Rogers Jn 8:34 link

“You don’t know God by Bible study.” ~ Adrian Rogers Jn 14:21

"Procrastination and disobedience are two sides of the same coin-- sin."  2 Co 6:2 ~ Adrian Rogers

 "Never doubt in the dark what you learned in the light."  ~ Adrian Rogers

"The justice system is now just a system." ~ Bob Enyart Eze 33:17,20

"We live by promises not by explanations." ~ Adrian Rogers

The Lord beats a lot of barnacles off our hull. 

"Singleness of purpose is the greatest secret of spiritual prosperity." ~ Bishop Rile link

"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

"External adornment without any internal beauty equals ugliness.  You can put a gold ring on a pig.  It doesn't make the pig beautiful.  It just makes the gold ugly." ~ Darrell Ferguson Pr 11:22

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

"The world does not hate the baby Jesus.  The world does not hate the Jesus who fed the multitudes.  The world does not hate the Jesus who healed the sick. The world hates the Jesus who testifies of it that it's works are evil." ~ Adrian Rogers  Ge 37:3, Heb 4:15

"People join churches like they join a country club like they're doing God a favor.  They have never seen themselves as sinners in the sight of a righteous and holy God." ~ Adrian Rogers Jn 16:7–11 

"A man's religion will rise no higher than his concept of God." ~ Adrian Rogers

"You can laugh your way into hell but you can't laugh your way out." ~ Adrian Rogers

"Americans United for Separation of Church and Brain" ~ Laura Ingraham

"Most people die by 30 but we don't bury them 'til 65 or so." ~ Mark Twain Eze 20:18

“When man repents of sin, God repents of judgment.” ~ Adrian Rogers  Is 58:6

"Repentance is not where you visit.  Repentance is where you live." ~ James MacDonald 2 Co 7:9

"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package." ~ John Ruskin Ps 73:6

"You cannot enjoy what you have not earned." Ps. 128:2 ~ Dennis Prager

"Satan wants to deceive you; that he might debauch you; that he might destroy you; that he might damn you." ~ Adrian Rogers

"The devil's more orthodox than some theologians I know." ~ Adrian Rogers Mk 1:24

"You can tell a man's character by what makes him angry." ~ Adrian Rogers Jas 4:4a

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

"If you blow off God, He'll blow you off, too." ~ Doug Giles Jer 6:30, Mt 10:33  Jn 12:48, He 6:8, 12:17

"There's no place like Sodom." Ge 19:26, Re 12:9 ~ J. Vernon McGee

"If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah." ~ Billy Graham  

"Government is supposed to be a terror to evil works.  What happens when they are a terror to good works?" ~ Chuck Missler 

Peter Drucker was asked if he was a Christian.  He answered, "That's for you to tell me." Mt 7:20

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

"Faith is believing whatever the evidence points to. It's a rational thing to do ." Ge 1:1, Mt 18:6 ~ Daryl Ferguson

"All people are precious in the sight of God and if you haven't learned that, you not have learned anything--not even the rudiments of Christianity." Jas. 2:3 - Adrian Rogers

"In a New Testament church everybody is somebody when Jesus Christ is Lord." Jas 2:3 - Adrian Rogers

"My future is as bright as the promises of God." - Adoniram Judson

"Libertarian = immoral conservative." ~ Bob Enyart

“It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.” ~ Lewis Sperry Chafer

Darkness is offended by the light. Jn 3:19 

"We will be judged according to the truth that we've known, the opportunity we had, and what we did with that opportunity." 1 Pe 4:5 ~ Charles Stanley

“Not only is it God’s nature to pardon sin, it is also God’s nature to punish sin….If we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. But if we don’t, he is faithful and just to judge our sins….Oh, both the goodness and the severity of God!...It is in God’s nature to punish if we refuse to be pardoned….God allows a man to choose whether he will be blessed or cursed.” ~ Adrian Rogers Ps. 31:19, Deut. 32:4

“Jesus was not a girl.” ~ Bob Enyart

"If you have a desire for truth, you'll be given more truth.  But if you don't have a desire for truth, even that which you seem to have will be taken away from you." ~ Adrian Rogers Mt 25:29, Ro 1:17, Pr 4:18

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.  Jn 9:39

"Light refused increases darkness." ~ Adrian Rogers 2 Thess 2:9-12, Jn 3:19-21

"He's like a man that bought a boomerang and threw it away so hard that he killed himself." ~ Adrian Rogers Ro 2:15, Ps 19:1, Ro 1:20, 2 Thess 2:9-12

"It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey." - Soren Kierkegaard

"They can't find Jesus for the same reason that a thief can't find a police officer." ~ Jn 7:17   Full quote 

If you want to increase your faith you must consent to the testing of your faith.

“Testing separates the talk from the walk.” ~ Jonathan Cahn

"If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?" ~ J. Vernon McGee

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

"There's heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now." ~ Adrian Rogers

"Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it." ~ Adrian Rogers

"Ministry is not safe.  It's a battle." ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub

"The closer you get to the line of fire, the greater the battle will be." ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub

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

To whom little is not enough nothing is enough. Eccl 5:10

"Either homosexuality or Christianity will be in the closet." ~ Bob Enyart

"My definition of a man?--Someone who takes care of a family." ~ Dennis Prager Gen. 2:18–24

"You are not honoring your parents when you are not honoring their marriage. You are not honoring your parents when you are not honoring your own marriage." ~ Dr. Joseph Webb

“First people deceive themselves.  Then, they are able to deceive others.” ~ Michael Youssef

“If Satan can get you…to debate any of the issues that are settled in the word of God, he’s two-thirds of the way through—you’re a dead duck.” ~ Michael Youssef

"God doesn't say let's make a deal.  God says this is the deal." ~ Patrick Winfrey

“Do the things that break the heart of Jesus break yours?” ~ Adrian Rogers

"To try to put a marriage together without the Lord is to have no source of peace...The meaning of peace? Righteousness.  The menace to peace? Sin. The maker of peace? God."  ~ John MacArthur Isa 9:6, Mt 5:9

"A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio." ~ Adrian Rogers 1 Pe 3:7, KJV

"There's a way to escape. Sometimes it's two legs and a hard run." Ge 39:9 ~ Adrian Rogers

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

"You cannot separate what you say from what you believe." Lk 6:45 ~ Michael Youssef

"If you're not as close to God as you used to be, someone has moved and it wasn't God." ~ Tom Clayton Col 1:20 link

"The devil offers high wages just but he pays in counterfeit money." ~ Adrian Rogers Pr 20:17, KJV

"Sin that used to slink down the back alley now struts in the street." Lk 17:28 ~ Adrian Rogers link

"Satan has no happy old people. He always gives the best first and the worst last." Pr 20:17 ~ Adrian Rogers

"True conviction causes brokenness that causes you not only to be broken over your sins but to be broken from your sin." ~ Adrian Rogers 2 Co 7:10 link

"There can be no happiness apart from holiness." ~ Michael Youssef

"Every time you say no to Jesus Christ, it makes it that much harder for you to say yes to Jesus Christ." ~ Adrian Rogers Heb 3:7-8

"One day your heart can get so hard that you will so insult the Holy Spirit that he won't speak to you any longer...One day he'll knock his last knock.  One day he'll speak his last voice. One day he'll call his last call and then he won't speak to you anymore. And that's when the lights go out on the road to hell." ~ Adrian Rogers Ge 6:3

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

"No one buys soap from a dirty man." ~ Darrell Ferguson Mt 18, 1 Pe 3:15 

  "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

"Repetition is the mother of pedagogy." ~ Dennis Prager

[Retirement and death] “Many have made adequate preparation. Many have not gone beyond that—no preparation for the endless ages of eternity—only for a few fleeting moments of time.” ~ J. Vernon McGee Jas 4:14

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

"Humanist--a nice word for atheist." ~ Adrian Rogers

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

"An egotist has "I" trouble. He's full of self." ~ Adrian Rogers Pr 13:10

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

"'He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat shattered glass." ~ Eric Fiedler

"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

"Faith is believing and trusting." ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub

"There are so many today, yes I'm serving him but I'm going something else also--and I consider the something else very important.  Well, then you don't consider serving him to be very important. The thing that I have learned in the ministry is this--that if you're going to serve the Lord Jesus, you've got to give him everything--and if you don't give him everything, you haven't given  him anything." ~ J. Vernon McGee Lk 9:62

  "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

"Where the spirit is Lord, there is liberty." Ro 5:12-21 ~ Adrian Rogers

"Government will grow in direct proportion to the weakness of the character of the people." Pr 14:34 ~ Adrian Rogers

"Liberty will last only as long as character and responsibility last." Pr 14:34 ~ Adrian Rogers

"If you want to know what's wrong with America, look in the mirror." Pr 14:34 ~ Adrian Rogers

"There's nothing wrong with the mirror.  There's something wrong with your face." "Michael Youssef Jas 1:23-25

"Genuine believers are sensitive to sin." ~ Michael Yousef Is 6:5, Ro 7:24

"The first generation generates.  The second generation speculates and the third generation dissipates.  We are living in the age of that third generation." Pr 14:34 ~ Adrian Rogers

"America is not a cow to be milked.  It's a watchdog to be fed." Ro 13 ~ Adrian Rogers

"What we have is a Constitution written by people of character for people of character." 2 Chron 7:14 ~ Adrian Rogers

"You'll never convince me that God ordained government and told his people to stay out of it.  If he did, who does that leave to run it?" ~ 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 

"Men aren't too bad to be saved; they're too good to be saved." ~ Adrian Rogers Luke 16:14, 15

“Salvation is not a reward for the righteous. It is a gift for the guilty.” ~ Adrian Rogers Ge 6:8, Eph 2:9

“Noah wasn’t saved by being fruitful. He was fruitful because he’d been saved.” ~ Adrian Rogers Ge 1:28, Eph 2:10

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

"You don't need a savior.  You need a sympathizer." ~ John MacArthur  Mk 2:17

"They rejected the diagnosis so they rejected the cure." ~ John MacArthur Jn 8:45

“If you think works end when you’re saved, you’re just wrong my friend; and, there’s something wrong if you don’t work—that’s all James is talking about. He’s talking about the works of faith not works of law—works of faith. “ Jas 2:18 ~ J. Vernon McGee

"It's not your sweat.  It's his blood." ~ Adrian Rogers

"Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness." ~ Adrian Rogers

"The gospel--not man seeking God.  God seeking man." ~ David Jeremiah Ro 3:11

A text taken out of context becomes pretext.

All a dead person can do is dead works. ~ Adrian Rogers  Ps 115:17

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

"This is the issue with mankind--they don't want you to tell them about consequences." ~ Charles Stanley link 

"Heaven is not for good people and hell for bad people.  Heaven is for those who have trusted Christ."  ~  Jeff Schwarzentraub Eph 2:8-9

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

“The Lord Jesus says, Paul says, James says, John says if you really are saved, it’s gonna show.  Believing leads to behaving and if you don’t behave, you’re not saved.” ~ J. Vernon McGee 2 Co 13:5

If you have no fruit, look for a wound.  If you have fruit look for a prune.Jn 15:2

"The fruit always matches the tree." ~ Daryl Ferguson Lk 6:15-20

"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. Heb 11:13

"Ravenous wolves don't just come to steal, kill and destroy.  They want every last morsel of meat off the bone of their pray." ~ Daryl Ferguson Mt 7:15

"Irritants makes the pearl." ~ David Jeremiah Jas 1:4

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

"Your plan B--could it be God's plan A?" ~ J D Chandler

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

Faith is like film.  It is developed in the dark.

In the Bible there are correcting storms and there are perfecting storms.  Jonah, Mt 14

"We don't need to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  We need to consider the character of God at the end." ~ Darrell Ferguson

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

"It has well been said that whatever a man does without God, he will either fail miserably or succeed even more miserably." Ex 33:3 ~ Adrian Rogers

"Someone else's blessing is not your loss." ~ Adrian Rogers Ro 13:13

"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  

"First they would not believe.  Then, they could not believe." ~ Adrian Rogers Jn 12:37-39, Heb 6:4-6, Ge 6:3, Ro 1:24, 26, 28; Heb 3:15 link 

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 

"It's easier to cool down a zealot than it is to warm up a corpse." ~ Adrian Rogers

“A fanatic—someone who has lost his way and doubles his speed.” ~ Adrian Rogers Ro 10:2–3a 

"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. 

"The thought is the father of the deed. You sow a thought you reap a deed. You sow a deed you reap a habit. You sow a habit you reap a character. It all begins with the thought life." ~ Adrian Rogers Jn 8:44

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

"PhD - Phenomenal dud." ~ Adrian Rogers 

"The opposite of truth is not error.  It's sin." ~ Adrian Rogers Ro 1:18

"Jesus didn't have an itch that the devil could scratch." Jas 1:13, Jn 1:1, Heb 4:14 ~ Adrian Rogers

"If you choose not to walk with the Lord, nothing is more frustrating than being around people who do." ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub Ro 8:31

"The hottest part of hell is reserved for those who having examined God's precious stone and disallowed it--those who having seen God's precious Son--slight him and reject the Lord Jesus Christ." ~ Adrian Rogers Lk 12:47, Mt 10:20-24

"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

"Either you will be under the blood or you will place the blood under you." ~ Adrian Rogers

"The gospel is simple if you believe it and it's offensive if you don't." ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub

“Any church that denies [the gospel of Jesus Christ], any church that ignores this, any church that belittles this, any church that is indifferent to this—it is not the church of Jesus Christ.” ~ Michael Youssef 

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

"Law excludes.  Grace includes." ~ Adrian Rogers, The Book of Ruth

"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 

"I heard a woman call her husband theory not deary because he didn't work.  The theory of evolution doesn't work." ~ Adrian Rogers link

"It takes more faith to believe in Darwin's monkey theory than it does to believe God's word." ~ Adrian Rogers

“It is not about your race.  It’s about the race.  It’s not about your skin tone.  It’s about your sin tone.” Sharon Johnson  Ac 17:26

"Nature forms us. Sin deforms us. Education informs us. Society reforms us. But Christ transforms us." ~ Adrian Rogers

"When a scientist 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

"Why does the Bible say keep on being filled?  Because we leak." ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub Eph 5:18

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

"Don't think of the church as Jesus sitting as the president.  Jesus is the head of the church." ~ Adrian Rogers Eph 2:6

"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

"The law is for the lawless." 1 Ti 1:9 ~ J. Vernon McGee

"You don't regulate morality.  You regulate immorality." ~ Adrian Rogers

"An attitude of rebellion is very closely akin to an action of rebellion." ~ Adrian Rogers

“You slap him in the face the same way a little girl slaps him in the face. She can only slap him because he is holding her up.” ~ Tim Keller

"Reputation is what is written on your tombstone. Character is what the angels say about you." ~ David Jeremiah

"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. 

"People say when you get saved you ought to get rid of your old friends.  When you start confessing Christ, they'll get rid of you." ~ Adrian Rogers

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

"People will say ugly things about you, but the important thing is to make sure the criticisms are not true." ~ J. Vernon McGee

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

"First the man molds the idol.  Then, the idol molds the man." ~ Adrian Rogers

[Tim Keller commentary paraphrasing] “If there’s anything too valuable to give me, don’t come.” ~ Tim Keller Mt 13:45-46, Jn 12:7–8

 "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." ~ Jim Elliot

“You cannot shack up with another God and think you’re a Christian.” ~ Paul Begley  

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

"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

"The only cure for a wicked and deceitful heart is a heart transplant (Ez. 36:26)." Mike Gendron 

"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

"Some people say, 'Well you know, I'm looking for a religion that suits me.'  You'd better find one that suits God." Jud 11 ~ Adrian Rogers link

"Cain rose up against Abel and slew him--oh, the conflict of their worship.  Did you know dear friends that false religion is one of the meanest things on this globe?  Did you know that people don't need religion.  They need to turn from religion to Jesus Christ...It was the religious crown that crucified Jesus." ~ Adrian Rogers Ge 4:5, 8, Eph 2:8-9, Jud 11 ~ Adrian Rogers link

"...We are sinners by birth, sinners by nature, sinners by choice, sinners by practice, sinners under judgment--all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Ro 3:23 ~ The Blood Atonement Adrian Rogers  link

"Depravity...the apostle John says if you deny you have it, the word of God isn't even in you." ~ David Jeremiah 1 Jn 1:8 link

“When I was converted, I lost my religion.” --Dr. W.I. Carroll

"Do-gooders--if they'd only do good."  ~ J. Vernon McGee

"You are never more than 180° away from pleasing God." ~  Jeff Schwarzentraub

"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

"What's the most important thing in all the universe?  Relationships." ~ Bob Enyart Num. 6:24–27, Jer 31:3

"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." Eccl 1:2 ~ 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)."

"You cannot have a 'come in Savior' and a 'stay out Lord' (Ro 14:9)." ~ Adrian Rogers

"They aren't thinking about the sweet by and by.  Their concern is about the nasty now and now." Php 3:17-4:1 ~ Adrian Rogers  

"You supply the will God supplies the power--willpower."  ~ Adrian Rogers

"Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?" ~ Dennis Prager

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 is never accomplished through passivity." Phil 4:4-7 ~ Jeff Schwarzentraub

The flesh is a good servant but a bad master.

"When I speak from the word of God, I speak with the authority of any apostle or prophet." ~ Adrian Rogers

"God uniquely shaped each one of us differently from each other and God did this for a reason." Michael Youssef link

"If God can use Balaam's donkey. He can use you, too." Nu 22:28 ~ David Jeremiah link

"God took a risk when he made man.  It was worth it...God made a creature with the capacity for depravity that he might have a creature with the capacity for devotion." ~ Adrian Rogers link

The history of the world is summed up in three words:  creation, desecration and re-creation.  Generation, degeneration and regeneration.  God made it perfect.  Sin ruined it. Jesus came...the second Adam--the last Adam that we might be made back as we were." ~ Adrian Rogers link 

"We live in a generation of unblushables." ~ Adrian Rogers Jer 6:15 link

"Man constantly wants to make an alibi for sin.  Man wants to believe that he is ill but not evil.  He is sick but not sinful.  He is weak but not wicked." ~ Adrian Rogers link

"Adam blamed Eve.  Eve blamed the serpent and the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.  Everybody is being blamed but nobody is saying, "It's me.  It's me.  It's me oh Lord." Ps 139:23, Pr 28:13  ~ Adrian Rogers link

"The greater the size of government, the less you are free." Ge 11:2 ~ Adrian Rogers link

"When Jesus Christ comes I don't want him to find his tithe in my pocket.  Whiskey in my cabinet.  Pornography in my book shelves.  Hatred in my heart.  I want to be blameless." ~ Adrian Rogers 2 Pe 3:14

"We taught this generation self-esteem not self-control.  When you always do what you want, you will be a wreck....If you eat what you want, if you have sex with whom you want, if you take what you want, if you sleep all you want, if you drink all you want...it's endless...you can't be happy.  Saying no to yourself is indispensable to happiness." ~ Dennis Prager

“Covetousness is lusting for what you must not have” ~ Bob Enyart