Top 143 Quotes & Sayings by Max Anders

While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.

Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.

Equal justice under law is a spiritual as well as a civic principle.

The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.

Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline.

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.

The opposite of love is indifference to the genuine needs of others.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.

Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's faithfulness.

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.

God never forgets a promise.

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.

Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.

A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.

Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.

God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.

Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.

Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.

A healthy relationship with God is built on the internal changes He brings about through Christ.

Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.