45 Quotes by Calvin Miller

Without application, preaching is at best a lecture and at worst entertainment.

The lips know only shallow tunes.

We must look to Mary’s example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.

Do not God’s visitations unnerve us? But why? Because He never comes to us without asking us to do something. We never know what He will ask of us, but we know that we will be overwhelmed by our feelings of inadequacy.

What would I do differently if I could do it all over again? I would put more emphasis on being a better husband and father. To the church or the university I would whip out a lot more noes, and a lot more yesses to my family. I would eradicate almost all of the ‘Daddy’s-too-busies,’ and the ‘later, darlings,’ from my vocabulary.

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

Donald Coggan’s wisdom: “When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit.”15.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.