38 Quotes by Sam Storms

...the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

The ultimate goal of theology isn’t knowledge, but worship.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn’t simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we’ve been created to join the party!

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.