Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

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.

Erwin W. Lutzer

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• Evil
• Reason
• Fail
• Ownership
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• The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • Me

• Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• If your investing approach requires that you become Nostradamus to succeed, then you are destined to fail.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Succeed
  • Fail

• Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Help
  • Me

• Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Age
  • Success

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the thought that you have to sacrifice being cool to believe in God.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Man
  • Day

• Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Society
  • Evil
  • Solitude

• If you're calling yourself a maverick and you're not Dirk Nowitzki, then you are probably not one. In fact, this rule applies to anyone declaring themselves a 'God-fearing Christian' or a 'Man of the people.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • God
  • Man

• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  

  Hall Caine
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Terrorists have goals beyond their supposed pacts with God. They are authors, too.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • God
  • Goals
  • Beyond

• Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Progress

• I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good. … Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • God
  • Universe
  • Devil

• Guard thee from the power of evil; Who cannot trust, vows to the devil.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Power
  • Trust
  • Evil

• My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • God

• God gives you the resources for success. But it is up to you to recognize them and use them to their fullest.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Up
  • God
  • Success

• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their work so important and urgent that they will allow nothing to disturb them. They think they are doing God a service in this but actually they are disdaining God's "crooked but straight path". It is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Discipline
  • Humility

• I was born in 1969, believe it or not, so I was a child in the '70s.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Believe

• Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul - religion and business. We are shocked because the religion is new, and contemptuous because the business, being subordinated to the religion instead of the other way round, is highly inefficient.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Different
  • Business
  • Soul

• You get all the girls, ... Maybe I can get all the attention.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield
  • Attention
  • Girls

• 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.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • God
  • Evil
  • Reason