Quotes from Sam Storms

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where

People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ.

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly

You may be at paradise or in prison, at the movies or in Chicago, but you are always and unchangeably in Christ.

Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!

Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!

One way of judging the quality of theologies," he explains, "is to see what sort of devotion they produce."32

the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology.

There is nothing in the Christian life that is "post" gospel!

What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one's gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to "kindle afresh" his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit.

On this view, then, Paul envisions an eschatological, end-of-time Antichrist, a man characterized by sin and destruction who will assume a place of influence and authority within the professing Church from which he will persecute God's people and foment a spiritual apostasy (cf. Matt. 7:21-23; 2 Tim. 1:15; Rev. 3:1; 11:7-13; 20:7-10), all of which must come to pass before the Lord Jesus can return in fullness.

faith is only as good as its object.

True faith energizes vocal proclamation and courageous witness concerning its glorious object: Jesus.

Paul is not impressed with faith. What moves him is faith "in Christ Jesus

this is what we hope for, the objective reality of our future inheritance, not the feeling of hope or expectation in our hearts. So

Mere sincerity, passionate devotion, clarity of conviction, and depth of insight are all ultimately useless unless they are rooted in and focused on the person and work of Jesus.

Jesus's disciples have faith, but their worry proves the weakness of their faith. Great faith comes not by looking inward, to the believing self, but by looking upward, to God. By faith we stop thinking like pagans, filled with anxiety about food and clothing. Pagans, thinking like orphans, worry. Disciples, thinking like children, relax.

May God so work in our hearts that our faith is affectionate and our passion is principled.

Whatever greatness there is in him (and it is there), whatever constructive influence he has exerted on the Christian church (and it has been incalculable), he himself would attribute to the sovereign grace of God working through yet another "clay jar" (2 Cor. 4:7).

Not only will it never end, it will never diminish in its capacity to enthrall and fascinate and impart joy. It

set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ" (1 Pet. 1:13). This

Where is the person who has so tasted the beauty of the age to come that the diamonds of the world look like baubles, and the entertainment of the world is empty, and the moral causes of the world are too small because they have no view to eternity? Where is this person?

Gazing at the grandeur of heavenly glory transforms our value system. In