Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
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Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
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God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.
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Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.
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God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
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There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
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Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
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Money is emphasized in Scripture simply because our temptation to love it is inexplicably powerful.
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Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.
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Men look for better methods, but God looks for better men.
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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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Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.
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Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.
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How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.
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The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.
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Satan exploits pain by making it the central focus of the man’s or woman’s thoughts and attitudes.
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To make sure our convictions, views, and assumptions about our Creator stay based on biblical truth and not on popular consensus, we must continually check what we believe against the Scriptures.
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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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Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.
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Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.
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Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.
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Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.
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Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
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There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.
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Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.