Best 43 quotes of Steven J Lawson on MyQuotes

A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.

At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.

Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

Faith only glances at problems, but gazes upon Jesus.

For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.

If you miss Christ you miss everything, and if you have Christ you have everything.

If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.

It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

New truth is old heresy.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.

Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard of no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

The heart of the new birth is the new birth of the heart.

The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.

Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

It was not for the entire world that Christ made atonement, for if He had, all the world would be saved.

The lamp of divine, written revelation reveals the will of God for the believer. Whether it is expressed by biblical command or precept, by scriptural example or principle, the Word illumines the path every believer must take. This divine light in Scripture is not a mere option, but an absolute necessity for every follower of Christ.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

The Word of God judges the thoughts. The word "judge" means to critique, to be or act as a critic. This is to say that Scripture is able to accurately audit a person's life and size it up for what it is. The Word of God is able to examine the unseen attitudes and motivations, expose the secret ambitions and desires, and then render the divine verdict. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks upon the heart. This sharp, two-edged sword is able to penetrate into the hidden crevices of the heart and judge what only God can see. The Word makes known what we alone know about ourselves - and often what we do not yet know of ourselves. Scripture plunges deep into the unseen places of the human spirit and judges the private matters of the heart. Only the razor-sharp Word of God can do this.