Quotes from Chuck Smith

God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God's grace.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

God's Word is the only reliable guideline for living. Following your heart, without the leading of His Word and His Spirit, will lead you to His judgement.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.

Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

We think of a martyr as one who dies for his faith; however, it is really one whose life is so totally committed to his faith that nothing will dissuade him from it, not even the threat of death. His death does not make him a martyr; it only confirms that he was truly a martyr.

I've come to the conclusion that it's more important that I have the right attitude than that I have the right answers. If my answers are wrong, God can change them in a moment by the revelation of His truth. But often times it takes a whole lifetime to change an attitude. Better that we have the right attitude and the wrong answers, than the right answers and the wrong attitude.

All of us are either trying to work and be good enough to please God, or we are believing and trusting God to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. At each moment of our lives we find ourselves on one road or the other. If we are still trying to please God through being good enough, defeat and frustration will be our lot. If we have trusted in God's grace to transform us and form Christ within us, we will enjoy life and peace. I

Grace and peace are called the Siamese twins of the New Testament because they're always coupled together. This is the proper order of the two words, for you can't have the peace of God until you've first experienced His grace.

The Fiery Furnace The events in this chapter foreshadow the resistance of the Jews to the worship of the Antichrist during the coming great tribulation period.

So you can't look at church history to find the model for the church, just like you can't look at the history of mankind and find God's divine intention for man.

The more you look at your problems, the bigger they get." -Chuck Smith

God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, has been sent by the Son to indwell you so that you might be empowered to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Such is the marvelous gift that God has freely bestowed upon you and me. We will never receive a better gift. Other gifts may thrill us, delight us, even astonish us. But no other gift will ever supersede this gift - because the gift is God Himself.