42 Quotes by Colin S. Smith

God had spoken to His people through His Word. It had humbled them in their sins, but it had lifted them up to see the grace and mercy of God, and then had directed them into a new life of obedience. In all our desperate searching for ways to find joy, God is telling us that we will never find joy like the joy of knowing God, being humbled in our sins, experiencing His grace, and walking in a life of obedience.

He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.

Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.

Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

Another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the might things he had done for Israel.’ (Judges 2:10)

...Their problem was not that they failed to believe in God; it was that they did not know God; it was that they did not know God. It took only one generation for that knowledge to be lost. But it’s also true that what can be lost in one generation can also be restored in one generation

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?