Adrian Rogers Quotes

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

I know personally the transforming power of the Word of God-it's changed my life.

Faith comes out of the heart not the head.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.

You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

There are three categories of people in America: those who are afraid, those who don't know enough to be afraid, and those who know their Bibles.

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

What you are alone is what you are.

God does not flunk any of His children. He just re-enrolls them.

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

I'm a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.

The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

As Christians, we are to be newsboys and not editors of the gospel.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment.

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God. And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do. Believe in miracles, but don't put your faith in miracles. Put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

Every time you say no to Jesus Christ, it makes it that much harder for you to say yes to Jesus Christ.

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us.

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate.

We're to love people and use things, not love things and use people.

Give God what's right, not what's left!

The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple.

God is never in a hurry, but God is never late

Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

Cience is changing. God's Word does not change!

Pray and doubt; you'll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart.

What Jesus will do with you is determined on what you will do with him.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus.

God does business with those who mean business.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible
that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.

The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.

If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

There can be no mercy without truth.

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.