Top 184 Quotes & Sayings by Adrian Rogers
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.
Your character is the harvest of your habits.
Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.
Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.
I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.
Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.
It is more important to influence people than to impress them.
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.
There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.
It’s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.
If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.
Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'
Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.
The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.
Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
You can't really live until you are no longer afraid to die.
Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.
God is never in a hurry, but God is never late
If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.
Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.
I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.
You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.
If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.
God doesn't just love all of us. He loves each of us.
A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.
Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.
I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.
To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.
Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'
Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.
God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.
Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!
You can laugh your way into hell but not out.
We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.
Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!
Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.
God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.
God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.
If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!
You can save a lot of time waiting on God.
Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.
God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.
The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.
As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.
Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.
When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God. And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do. Believe in miracles, but don’t put your faith in miracles. Put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
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