127 Quotes by Erwin W. Lutzer

How do you know you have a servant’s heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.

To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in that kind of lifestyle is a call to holiness, a call to celibacy and integrity. Obviously, it is a capitulation toward one’s desires and the sexual sins that the Bible so strongly condemns.

There is more grace in God’s heart than there is sin in your past.

Whatever circumstances our pasts may hold, we can rise above them into a future shaped by God’s grace.

James wrote, “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God’; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone.

As children bring their broken toys, With tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God Because He was my friend. But then instead of leaving Him In peace to work alone, I hung around and tried to help With ways that were my own. At last I snatched them back and cried, “How can you be so slow?” “My child,” He said, “What could I do? You never did let go.

He allows us the luxury of difficult choices so that we can prove our love for Him. These are our opportunities to choose God rather than the world.

If we haven’t learned to be worshipers it doesn’t really matter how well we do anything else. Worship changes us or it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience.

Someone has said that people live their lives “crucified between two thieves – the regrets of yesterday and the anxieties of tomorrow.