Top 50 Quotes & Sayings by Steven J Lawson

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

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

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

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.

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

Faith only glances at problems, but gazes upon Jesus.

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

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

God has loved us in spite of us.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.

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

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

The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

New truth is old heresy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard of no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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