Quotes from Erwin W. Lutzer

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

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

You become stronger only when you become weaker. When you surrender your will to God, you discover the resources to do what God requires.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

The activities we do for God are secondary. God is looking for people who long for communication with Him.

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.

Are we as willing to go into debt for the work of God as we are for a vacation to Hawaii?

In salvation, God both declares us guilty and pays our debt. Only he can satisfy his own requirements. A savior less than God would be disqualified; God must do it himself.

Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.

Thank God for the way He made you. You are special, distinct, and unique. You were not made from a common mold. Thank Him that you are special.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

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

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

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.

Only eternal values can give meaning to temporal ones. Time must be the servant of eternity.