6 Quotes by C. John Miller

We want God to show us the “practical” things. Who should I marry? What career should I pursue? We want guidance, but Jesus wants to give us himself. Jesus is the light of the world: he is the answer. He wants to show his glory in our lives.

Suppose you have shown a lot of mercy to someone. But they haven’t ever thanked you or acknowledged what you have done. When that happens to me, my instinct is to want to choke that person. But when you know God’s mercy to you in Christ, when you know the forgiveness of sins, your hands are so full of God’s good gifts of mercy and grace that you don’t have a hand free to choke anyone.

Don’t let your emotional life be controlled by the sin you see in others.

When you get alone with God and begin to pray, you learn your insignificance. You see how big and powerful God is, and suddenly, the whole of your life becomes worship and praise.

I wanted a well-organized church, and it was – as well organized as the local cemetery and just as dead. In my life and in my preaching there was no touch of the love of God, no grace. When we come to the impossible and are broken again and again, that’s when we cry out to Jesus for grace. That’s what changes yourself and others. That’s the heart of growing to be like Christ.

Jesus was born under the law of God and took on himself the condemnation we deserved for our sin. Now the full legal rights of adoption are given to us who are in Christ by faith.