Quotes from D.R. Silva

Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me.

How can a God who said, "Love your enemies" spend so much time killing His own?

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.

Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible.

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is.

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive

We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place.

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him.