Quotes from Sam Storms

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

You need never fear feeling too good about God.

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.

Of what good is it, in the ultimate sense, to shower someone with affection in the absence of a robust confidence in Jesus and the courage to proclaim him as the sinner's only hope?

The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.

True love is something seen and known by others.