45 Quotes by Calvin Miller

Much of Christmas’ beauty is in its sameness. The same traditions. The same meals. The same songs. The same story. Yet each Christmas is a little different.

Most of these super-sovereigns feel that God can comment if he wants to, but God must avoid getting loud. While God is welcome to his opinions, he is only one voice, and he doesn’t get extra points just for being God. The unstudied opinionated are prone to say, even to God, “Yes, but here’s what I think.” In such a world, classic apologetics has lost much of its force.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

Community is essential, but the fundamental calling of the church is global.

Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.

John Hines said, “Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen – not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don’t matter much.

If anybody is left behind in a congregation of a thousand, the preacher has not preached well.

Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination.