Adrian Rogers Quotes
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When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.
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Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
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The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.
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Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
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There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.
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Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.
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Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.
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Give God what's right, not what's left!
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No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.
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When you educate without the Holy Spirit, you only get a clever devil.
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God does business with those who mean business.
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The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.
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Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
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And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
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When you choose sin the baggage that comes with it is error.
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Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).
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Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'
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There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children
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Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
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You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.
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What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.