Quotes from Walter Martin

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to do so? No one wants you to write it and having written it in spite of them, no one wants to read it. Above all, no one wants to pay for it. For better or worse, a poem has a hard time turning into a commodity.

humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.

It was Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse who said that simply because a person is a member of a specific denomination, there is no reason to suppose that the entire denomination is represented by that person's theology

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or practice from those religious groups which are regarded as the normative expressions of religion in our total culture.

Within the theological structure of the cults there is considerable truth, all of which, it might be added, is drawn from biblical sources, but so diluted with human error as to be more deadly than complete falsehood.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.

Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.