Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
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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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You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.
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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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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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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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No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.
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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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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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Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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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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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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Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.
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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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Temptation is God's magnifying glass; it shows us how much work he has left to do in our lives.
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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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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.
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Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.
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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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Children who are brought up with one parent or another parent or shared parenthood, when there has been a divorce and hatred within families, it breeds a tremendous amount of instability in the life of a child. And many of these children end up in the homosexual movement. Even if they don't, they take so much baggage into their marriages, that they are unable sometimes, at least theoretically unable, to stand against all of the cultural forces that would disrupt them and their families.
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There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.
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Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.
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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.