Quotes from Calvin Miller

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

Do not God's visitations unnerve us? But why? Because He never comes to us without asking us to do something. We never know what He will ask of us, but we know that we will be overwhelmed by our feelings of inadequacy

After eating the world's bread, we wake each morning to remember: We are still hungry. Seek a better loaf. Eat, and never die. Taste, savor, and be filled forever.

Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination.

But we are wealthy, and our purses are so heavy that we cannot carry both our goods and his cross. So we cling to our wallets and leave the cross bearing to those who have less to surrender.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.

we cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.

Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

We have become the revisionist society. We rewrite history in favor of viewpoints. We rewrite ethics in favor of "what's right is what makes you feel good after." Political correctness puts Jesus and Buddha on the same low shelf. Gender inclusivity has us tied up in proper pronouns. Since God goes undefined, His expectations have been missing for some time, and sin is what you do that hurts others.

In all the religions and philosophies of the world, a follower can follow the teachings of its founder without having a relationship with that founder. But not so with Jesus Christ.

Terra has just one stone To mark her great insanity: Across her continents it reads: HERE LIES HUMANITY!

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

Long ago I learned that more than half of any pastor's congregation come to church broken and in the grip of some life issue that is eating at their wellbeing.

Don't forget that déjà vu is the word that when you look it up the dictionary says, "You've looked this up before, haven't you?

What would I do differently if I could do it all over again? I would put more emphasis on being a better husband and father. To the church or the university I would whip out a lot more noes, and a lot more yesses to my family. I would eradicate almost all of the 'Daddy's-too-busies,' and the 'later, darlings,' from my vocabulary.

Community is essential, but the fundamental calling of the church is global.

Churches that ignore their communities will not grow, and churches that will not globalize don't matter much.

When asked, "Who is my neighbor?" Jesus in effect does not say, "Let me give you three Hebrew roots on the word neighbor." What he does say is, "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho. . . .

enjoy the mysteries of God in all their hiddenness, and your life will thrive on the power of a God too vast for you to track.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.