Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

Winning the world to Christ means winning individuals.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

God has a program of character development for each of us. He wants others to look at our lives and say, He walks with God, for he lives like Christ.

Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

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

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations.

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of our indifference to its meaning and importance.

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.

At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

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.

If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!

God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.

The most important part of us is the part that no one ever sees.