Friday, March 23, 2012

Adrian Rogers Quotes (6)


* To be completely known, and still be loved is the goal of marriage.
* We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.
* When raising children: Be fair; Be firm; Be fun.
* Wisdom is the gumption to function with unction.
* The church is a group of sinners who finally admitted it.
* Most people only go to church three times in their lives: when they're born, when they're married, and when they die -- hatched, matched, and dispatched. The first time they throw water on you, the second time they throw rice on you, and the third time they throw dirt on you.
* Don't let your conscience be your guide unless God guides your conscience.
* It's better to be hated for telling the Truth, than loved for telling a lie.
* An excuse is just the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
* It is better to ultimately succeed with the Truth than to 'temporarily' succeed with a lie.
* If you can be a Christian at home, you can be a Christian anywhere.
* A building is not the church, it's just a sheep shed.
* It is better to speak the Truth that hurts and then helps, than to speak falsehood that comforts and then kills.
* You can't be right with God and be wrong with a brother.
* Sometimes marriage starts out as an "ideal", becomes an "ordeal", and then they are looking for a "new deal".
* Too often churches are sacred societies for the snubbing of sinners.
* Be humbly grateful, not grumbly hateful.
* Atheists really mean they don't want God, rather than they believe there is no God.
* God is not here to keep you out of trouble; He's here to get in trouble with you.
* I sin all I want to, I just don't want to.
* It is safer on the waves with Jesus than in the boat without Him.
* It's always too soon to quit but never too late to start!
* The world is our external foe, the flesh is our internal foe, and the devil is our infernal foe.
* Knowledge comes from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
* Conscience is that thing that feels bad when everything else feels good.
* Give Satan an inch, and he'll be a ruler.
* Worry is an insult to God.
* Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going in the garage will make you an automobile.
* Wisdom is seeing life from God's point of view.
* Most religion today in America is man-centered rather than Christ-centered. People are looking for religion to serve them.
* The truest thing about me is what God says about me.
* In the Old Testament, God had a temple for His people, but in the New Testament, God has a people for His temple.
* We don't have to agree, you have the right to be wrong if you want to.
* The devil would just as soon send you to Hell from a church pew as he had from a gutter.

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