Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
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God loves the world. Go thou and do likewise.
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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
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The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
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Milk many cows but make your own butter.
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Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
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If we haven't learned to be worshipers it doesn't really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.
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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.
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We must distinguish between genes that cause physical characteristics, like the color of your eyes or hair, over which you have no control, and what we could call 'behavioral dispositions'. We are responsible for our behavior, no matter what those dispositions are.
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Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.
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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.
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I think that as Christians we need to walk the delicate balance between standing in opposition to same-sex marriages and yet showing that we can do that without becoming angry or hateful.
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There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
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To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one's desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.
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Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.
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Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?
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At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.
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The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
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Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
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Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.