Adrian Rogers Quotes

United States, Pastor
September 12, 1931 – November, 15, 2005.

Adrian Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 – November 15, 2005) served three terms as president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979–1980 and 1986–1988). He was also a Southern Baptist pastor whose church services aired on television, and a conservative author. Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida. He entered Christian ministry at the age of nineteen. He graduated from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Rogers was ordained by Northwood Baptist Church (later known as The Village Baptist Church, now operating as Family Church Village) in West Palm Beach.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

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Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

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Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

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- God
- Occurred
The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple.

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- Simple
- Glorious
..Science is changing. God's Word does not change!

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- God
- Science
- Doe
You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

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- Great
- God
- Trust
Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

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- Christian
- Service
- Prayer
You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.

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- World
- Overcoming
- Satan

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

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- God
- Fear
- Value
The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

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- Life
- Spirit
- Bible
You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

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- Time
- God
- Waiting
To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

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I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

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- People
- Bible
- Sorry
We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

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- People
- Use

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

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- Heart
- Eyes
- Jesus
I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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- Good
- May
- Jesus
Your character is the harvest of your habits.

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- Character
- Habit
- Harvest
I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

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- Truth
- Light
- Alone
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

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- Freedom
- Poor
- Wealthy
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

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- People
- Writing
- Enough

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error.

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- Truth
- Errors
- United
One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

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- Giving
- Justice
- Mercy
I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

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- Thinking
I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

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- Christ
- Invisible
- Visible