Steven J Lawson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It will cost you to follow Christ, but it costs even more not to follow Him.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Cost #Christ
“The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Christian #Jesus #Loving Life
“Some Christians live in such fear, they act as if they believe in the sovereignty of Satan rather than the sovereignty of God.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Christian #Believe #Satan
“Jesus is not a good way to heaven, nor even the best way. He is the only way to heaven.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Jesus #Heaven #Way
“If your repentance has not changed your life, you need to repent of your repentance.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Needs #Repentance #Changed
“If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Lambs #Lions #Faces
“We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Love Is #Firsts #Sin
“A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Views #Worship #Holy
“We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Scripture #Authority
“The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Saint #Creation Of The Universe #Sinner
“If you are only born once, you will die twice. But if you are born twice, you will only die once.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Born #Ifs #Dies
“If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Claims #Bookshelves #Ifs
“The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Littles #Realizing #Knowing God
“With arms outstretched on the cross. Jesus took holy God in one hand and sinful man with the other and brought the two together.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Jesus #Men #Hands
“Hell is a real place, more real than the city in which you live, much hotter and more populated.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Real #Cities #Hell
“The Bible is shallow enough for a new believer to wade in, but deep enough for a theologian to drown in.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Wade #Enough #Shallow
“Where God has put a period, the devil puts a question mark, casting doubt.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Doubt #Devil #Casting
“Unless the Holy Ghost blesses the Word, we who preach the gospel are of all men most miserable, for we have attempted a task that is impossible. We have entered on a sphere where nothing but the supernatural will ever avail. If the Holy Spirit does not renew the hearts of our hearers, we cannot do it. If the Holy Ghost does not regenerate them, we cannot. If He does not send the truth home into their souls, we might as well speak into the ear of a corpse.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Home #Heart #Men
“At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Sin #Christ #Crosses
“Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Dog #Church #Wander
“If there is no fruit in sanctification, there is no root in regeneration.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Roots #Fruit #Regeneration
“The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Holiness #Path #Obedience
“In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#School #Class #Suffering
“The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Powerful #Voice #Sin
“Humility begins with seeing who God is, seeing yourself compared to God, and then seeing yourself as God sees you.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Humility #Who God Is #Seeing Yourself
“We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Eye #Focus #Christ
“For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Wrath #Perfect #Justice
“A cross without offense to the world is a cross without power in the world.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#World #Crosses #Offense
“When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Authority #Intensity #Results
“God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.”
-- Steven J Lawson

#Honor #Christ #Pulpit

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