28 Quotes by R. Kent Hughes

Many believers use truth as a license to righteously diminish others’ reputations.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

Gossip involves saying behind a person’s back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person’s face what you would never say behind his or her back.

There can be no burden for distant unreached peoples without a burden for unreached neighbors.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

The true test of a man’s spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.

One thing is certain: Nothing will set you apart from culture more than the exclusive claims of Christianity. And it is here that we must intentionally set ourselves apart-because if we do not, we will have no message for the world!

God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a “brilliant” conversationalist!