Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.
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Each is responsible for his own actions.
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If Muslims curse the Christians, then the Christians will curse the Muslims. And people will curse Allah, and Allah will hold us responsible for that.
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We are responsible for our incredulity.
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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.
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Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
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When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.
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The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.
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The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
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You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.
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We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.
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He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
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There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow laws. There are Christians, there are other Muslims being slaughtered in the Middle East, they don't need a lecture from Obama about Christianity. The fact of the matter is Obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time.
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The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.
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The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Christians came from the ranks of the illiterate. This is certainly true of the very earliest Christians, who would have been the apostles of Jesus. In the Gospel accounts, we find that most of Jesus’s disciples are simple peasants from Galilee—uneducated fishermen, for example. Two of them, Peter and John, are explicitly said to be “illiterate” in the book of Acts (4:13). The apostle Paul indicates to his Corinthian congregation that “not many of you were wise by human standards” (1 Cor. 1:27)—which might mean that some few were well educated, but not most. As we move into the second Christian century, things do not seem to change much. As I have indicated, some intellectuals converted to the faith, but most Christians were from the lower classes and uneducated.
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Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set the right examples. I have to really be someone that I would want my child to look up to.
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I like being outdoors. I like action films.
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Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.
