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Calvin Miller quotes: We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.

We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.

Calvin Miller quotes: Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

Calvin Miller quotes: The lips know only shallow tunes

The lips know only shallow tunes

Calvin Miller quotes: Teach me the wilderness simplicity.Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,as the threshold of all that really matters.

Teach me the wilderness simplicity.
Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,
as the threshold of all that really matters.

Calvin Miller quotes: Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.

Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.

Calvin Miller quotes: The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.

The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.

Calvin Miller quotes: With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Calvin Miller quotes: Bless your critics for their honesty. They do not criticize you to be a blessing to you, but the end product may be the same.

Bless your critics for their honesty. They do not criticize you to be a blessing to you, but the end product may be the same.

Calvin Miller quotes: A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

Calvin Miller quotes: Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15

Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15

Calvin Miller quotes: Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

Calvin Miller quotes: Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.

Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.

Calvin Miller quotes: Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

Calvin Miller quotes: But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

Calvin Miller quotes: A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.

A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.

Calvin Miller quotes: One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Calvin Miller quotes: Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

Calvin Miller quotes: The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

Calvin Miller quotes: Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?

Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?

Calvin Miller quotes: Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.

Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.

Calvin Miller quotes: Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination.

Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination.

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

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

Calvin Miller quotes: Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold - where we trip is where the treasure lies.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold - where we trip is where the treasure lies.

Calvin Miller quotes: Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

Calvin Miller quotes: It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

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

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

Calvin Miller quotes: Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

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

Calvin Miller quotes: CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.

CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.

Calvin Miller quotes: In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

Calvin Miller quotes: Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

Calvin Miller quotes: Anytime our sermons become confessional, they become more powerful.

Anytime our sermons become confessional, they become more powerful.

Calvin Miller quotes: To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

Calvin Miller quotes: The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

Calvin Miller quotes: Audience analysis is also the most formidable work of the local pastor.

Audience analysis is also the most formidable work of the local pastor.

Calvin Miller quotes: When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

Calvin Miller quotes: Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

Calvin Miller quotes: When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.