Quotes by Adrian Rogers

Adrian Rogers (1931–2005) — Pastor · Baptistisch · USA

Adrian Rogers (1931–2005) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Pastor, Buchautor und langjähriger Leiter der Bellevue Baptist Church in Tennessee. Als führende Gestalt der konservativen Erneuerung in der Southern Baptist Convention stand er für die strikte Irrtumslosigkeit der Bibel, stieß mit seinem kirchenpolitischen Kurs und gesellschaftspolitischen Positionen jedoch auch auf deutliche Kritik. Heutigen Bibellesern begegnet er vor allem durch pointierte, praxisnahe Predigten und Auslegungen, die über sein Medienwerk weltweit verbreitet werden.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: The Bible & the Word of God, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Guilt & Forgiveness, Witness & Mission, Wisdom & Understanding, Discipleship, Faith & Trust

Quotes by Adrian Rogers

What is an evangelist? It is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.
Adrian Rogers

God's plan is to use ordinary people with ordinary talents to do extraordinary things through them, so that He alone receives the glory.
Adrian Rogers

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

Jesus didn't die as a martyr; Jesus died as a voluntary substitute.
Adrian Rogers

Point people to the Scriptures and then get out of the way.
Adrian Rogers

If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
Adrian Rogers

A sign of being filled with the Holy Spirit is not speaking in other tongues, but knowing how to control your own.
Adrian Rogers

I have been chosen by the Father, saved by the Son, and sealed by the Holy Spirit.
Adrian Rogers

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need
Adrian Rogers

Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.
Adrian Rogers

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

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.
Adrian Rogers

There was a time when preachers stood in the pulpit and roared: 'The Bible says…'. Then they said: 'The church says…'. Now most of them scratch their heads and say: 'Well, it seems to me…'. What happened to biblical authority?
Adrian Rogers

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.
Adrian Rogers

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.
Adrian Rogers

God chooses who He wants, when He wants, for what He wants.
Adrian Rogers

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

Friend, I have news for you: If the devil evaporates, you'll still keep sinning.
Adrian Rogers

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

If you have never run into the devil, it's because you and he are heading in the same direction.
Adrian Rogers

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
Adrian Rogers

Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
Adrian Rogers

If you go to hell, you will pay all the blame. If you go to heaven, you will give Him all the glory.
Adrian Rogers

The curse of this century is that we have many churches full of baptized pagans.
Adrian Rogers

You don't really break the Ten Commandments; the Ten Commandments break you. When you transgress the Ten Commandments, you become a sinner. Sin makes you an outlaw.
Adrian Rogers

God's love is magnified in heaven, and God's judgment is manifested in hell.
Adrian Rogers

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.
Adrian Rogers

Today we have fathers who are interested in sports, business and sex. They have forgotten the task God entrusted to them of teaching the Ten Commandments.
Adrian Rogers

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.
Adrian Rogers

The reason some of us don't understand more of the Bible is that we haven't been living according to the light God has already given us. If you want to understand that part of the Bible you don't understand, start obeying the part you do understand, and then you will understand what you didn't understand.
Adrian Rogers

Sources: baptisthistoryhomepage.com, lwf.org, wikipedia.org, gotquestions.org

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