Adrian Rogers Quotes (1)

Discipleship

* God prefers the fruit of the Spirit over religious nuts.

* Sin is not just breaking God’s laws; Sin is breaking God's heart.

* He who angers you controls you.

* Happiness depends on what happens. Joy depends on the Lord.

* Is what I’m living for worth Christ dying for?

* We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

* Don’t let your conscience be your guide, unless God guides your conscience.

* Whatever a man chooses, that will master him.

* There is enough time in every day to do gracefully everything God wants you to do.
* Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

Faith

* Faith that can’t be tested can’t be trusted. Faith that fizzles before the finish was flawed from the first.

* Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

* The Christian life is not all honey and no bees.

* False religion is characterized by force. True religion is characterized by faith.

* It's what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

* If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk.

Prayer

* Your spiritual life will never rise above your prayer life.

* When trials come, don't wring your hands -- bend your knees.

* A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.

* Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

* Don't give God instructions; just REPORT FOR DUTY!

* When someone does you wrong, tell Jesus on them.

Salvation

* You can believe in miracles, but trust in Jesus' finished work and blood.

* Life is short, plan ahead.

* Don't get the idea that Jesus died to save you from hell. He died to save you from the love of sin. And if He has never save you from loving sin, He has never saved you from hell.

* Eternal life is not something you get when you die; it's something you get when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.

* I wouldn't trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

* Most people today are just interested in making the world a better place to go to hell from.

* Thank you for saving me, Jesus. I receive You by faith. I don't look for a sign. I don't ask for a feeling. I stand on Your Precious Promise, AND THAT SETTLES IT FOREVER.

* There are those who can preach the Gospel better than I can, but there is nobody who can preach a better Gospel than I can. The devil would just as soon send you to hell from the pew as he would the gutter.

* Eternity is only a breath away.

* Heaven is not a reward for good and respectable people; Heaven is a gift for guilty sinners.

* There was a time when you were not, but there will never be a time when you will cease to be.

* You are free to choose, but you're not free not to choose, and you're not free to choose the consequences of your choice.

Money

* When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.

* You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.

* You'll see how rich you are when you add up everything you have that money can't buy and death can't take away.

* Give God the chance to provide before you buy.

* If we could take it with us, it would melt where some of us are going. (Billy Sunday)

* We spend the first half of our lives wasting our health to get wealth. The second half of our lives we spend our wealth to get back our health.

Consecration

* Being baptized with the Holy Spirit means He is now resident in your heart. Being filled with the Holy Spirit means He is now President there.

* Jesus died to claim me as Lord, and now He lives to control me as Lord.

* Most people want to serve God but only in an advisory capacity.

* The sin of immorality is not one we are instructed to fight. It is one we are told to flee. Run from that compromising situation. Saturate the place of temptation with your absence. It is not enough to confess sin without forsaking it.

* If I had a thousand lives to live, I'd give every one to Jesus Christ.

* Failure is succeeding at the wrong thing.

The Character of God

* God grades on the cross not the curve.

* God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

* God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.
* You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

* God should be our first thought, not our last resort.

* If you try to define the Trinity, you'll lose your mind; but if you deny the Trinity, you'll lose your soul.

The Church

* Growing churches love, and loving churches grow.

* Most religion in America is man-centered religion rather than God-centered. People are looking for religion to serve them.

* The Mission of the Church: make them, mark them, and mature them.

* This building is not the church. It's just a sheep shed.

* Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going into a garage will make you an automobile.

Truth

* Evolution is not science; it's science fiction.

* If you please God, it doesn't matter whom you displease. If you displease God, it doesn't matter whom you please.

* It's better to know the truth and to stand alone than it is to be wrong with a multitude.

* It's better to speak truth that hurts and then helps than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

* It's better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

The Fruit of the Spirit

* Peace is not the substraction of problems. It is the addition of power to meet those problems.

* The joy of the Lord isn't there to remove the pain; the joy of the Lord is there to help me bear it.

* Joy is proof that what we have is real and that it satisfies.

* Justice is God giving us what we deserve. Mercy is God not giving us what we deserve. Grace is God giving us what we don't deserve.

* Meekness is strength under control. Mercy is sympathy with legs.

* A joyless Christian is an oxymoron.

* If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it. Whatever you need, give it away.

* Just because something doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

* We live in a day where a hero is a sandwich, life is a magazine, power is a candy bar, joy is a detergent, sin is a perfume, a star is an actress who's been married three times, and the real thing is a soft drink.

* The straight edge of the Law shows us how crooked we really are on the inside.

* Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

* The will of God is not something you have to do, it is something you get to do.

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