Steven J. Lawson Quotes

Faith only glances at problems, but gazes upon Jesus.

God has loved us in spite of us.

When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.

These truth-seeking students gathered at a local pub on the campus of King's College, called the White Horse Inn, to debate the ideas of Luther.

Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

New truth is old heresy.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

In Christ God loved us, His elect and chosen, before the world began, and reserved us unto the knowledge of his Son and of His holy gospel.30

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

Romans gave Luther his theology, but it was the Psalms that gave him his thunder.

A cross without offense in the world is a cross without power in the world.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

Your faith depends on the strength of its object ... a puny god just won't do.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

The blessing of heaven will not accompany the preaching that is done in a worldly manner.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.

There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one way to go to heaven.

Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.

Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.

The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.

We do not merely add Jesus Christ to our lives and continue in the same direction. Following Christ means we stop, turn around, and pursue Him.

The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.

If you miss Christ you miss everything, and if you have Christ you have everything.

We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.

If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.

In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.

The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

Whatever your Bible translation is, it stands on the shoulders of one man - William Tyndale.

Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.

For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

There is a vast difference between merely knowing about Christ and actually knowing Him-the difference between heaven and hell.

If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.

Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.

If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.

As you preach, stay in the text, give honor to Christ and He will use you

If you're saved and you're breathing, you need to know who William Tyndale is.

You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.

The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.

Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.

If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing - except his sin - to His salvation, not even his faith.

It would be easier to grow oak trees by planting marbles than for someone to be saved without the seed of the word.

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.

The heart of the new birth is the new birth of the heart.

We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.

With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.

If Christ is not everything, He is nothing. He who has Christ has everything.

The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.

If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

Every decision and direction must come under this overarching goal of bringing glory to God.

He who has ceased to learn has ceased to teach. He who no longer sows in the study will no more reap in the pulpit.