Quotes from Calvin Miller

Theologians have a way of resolving things that are inerrant and writing them down in books that go unread.

The world is looking for answers. If you have some of them, for goodness' sake spit 'em out. The world is looking for servants of God whose yes is yes. How elementary, how refreshing.

Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.

Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.

Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.

To God obscenity is not uncovered flesh. It is exposed intention. Nakedness is just a state of heart.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?

the Bible never says those who believe in God will be saved; only those who believe that He had a Son who rose from the dead can be saved (Rom. 10:9). Talk about narrow doctrine; we who have accepted Christ as

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

What is born at midnight, in the eeriest hours of God's presence, can beget our entire reason to be.

Where You Go Hereafter Depends upon What You Go After Here

we have no right to claim a love for God while we walk the selfish ledges of disregard for what God requires of us. Utter

Vision is seeing down the road ahead, the road called "what God has given me to do." Image is how you want the world to see you.

CHRIST KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT TO SERVE, EVEN IF DOING SO INTERRUPTED HIS PERSONAL AGENDA.

Passion can never be genuine unless the preacher owns a burning need for a God-relationship. Zeal must own the herald before the herald can preach it into others.

Those who know the least about theology and the Bible often out-preach—or at least out-fascinate—those who are well studied.

Because the secular culture didn't want a Lord, preaching quit saying, "Thus saith the Lord.

Great sermon theses are powerful acids that etch themselves on the "have-tos" of the speaker. They are rarely written down. They don't need to be. They have already been written boldly on the preacher's soul.

It is the eleventh Beatitude that reads, "Blessed are those whose love of books and their Greek New Testaments has married their need to live in union with Christ.

Saturdays and Mondays were Sundays' bookends. On Saturdays preachers were neurotic planning what they would say, and on Mondays they were neurotic for having said it."7

Teach me the wilderness simplicity. Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously, as the threshold of all that really matters.

It is strange how oftentimes the air speaks. We are sane as long as we hear voices when there are none. We are insane when we hear nothing and worse we are deaf.

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...