Quotes by Albert Mohler
Albert Mohler (b. 1959) — Präsident des Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Theologe, Buchautor und Podcaster · baptistisch / evangelikal · USA
Albert Mohler (* 1959) ist ein US-amerikanischer Theologe, Buchautor und seit 1993 Präsident des Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Er gilt als prägende Stimme des konservativen US-Evangelikalismus, vertritt ein striktes Bekenntnis zur biblischen Irrtumslosigkeit und kommentiert im Podcast „The Briefing“ das Zeitgeschehen aus calvinistisch-baptistischer Sicht. Bibellesern begegnet er als profilierter Apologet und Ausleger, während seine gesellschaftspolitischen Positionen sowie der institutionelle Umgang mit Missbrauchsfällen in seiner Denomination in der Kritik stehen.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Growth & Character, Church & Congregation, Grace & Redemption, Work & Vocation, The Bible & the Word of God, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Faith & Trust
Quotes by Albert Mohler
We do not believe in belief any more than we have faith in faith. We believe the gospel, and we have faith in Christ. Our beliefs have substance and our faith has an object.
Albert Mohler
We are justified by faith alone, saved by grace alone, and redeemed by Christ alone. Moralism produces (potentially) better-behaved sinners. The Gospel transforms sinners into adopted sons and daughters of God.
Albert Mohler
The attractiveness of idols is because they are visual, portable, tangible, manageable and servable.
Albert Mohler
With power and responsibility must come accountability. A leader without accountability is an accident waiting to happen.
Albert Mohler
We cannot add time; we can only exercise stewardship over the time we are given.
Albert Mohler
Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. We would not know who we are but for these bedrock beliefs, and without them we would not know how to lead.
Albert Mohler
The leader may have the most brilliant strategy in his mind, the most breathtaking vision in his sights, and an irrepressible passion in his heart, but if these are not communicated to others, real leadership just doesn’t occur.
Albert Mohler
When [pastors] measure whether or not (they) are successful, it must be by this criterion, namely, are we seeing the saints growing to completeness in Jesus Christ?
Albert Mohler
The most dangerous heresies are those that contain a grain of truth.
Albert Mohler
God is most beautifully praised when His people hear His Word, love His Word, and obey His Word.
Albert Mohler
Character is indispensable to credibility, and credibility is essential to leadership.
Albert Mohler
Communication requires courage for the very simple reason that, if your convictions mean anything at all, someone will oppose you. If opposition to your ideas and beliefs offends you, do not attempt to lead. Every leader knows the experience of rejection and opposition. You must prepare for it, expect it, and deal with it when it happens.
Albert Mohler
The American ideal of retirement does not meet the Christian standard of faithfulness. For Christians the issue should be redeployment rather than retirement.
Albert Mohler
Leaders of character produce organizations of character because character, like conviction, is infectious. Followers are drawn to those whose character attracts them as something they want for themselves.
Albert Mohler
There will never be enough time to read all that you want to read, or even all that you think you ought to read. Just keep reading. Set aside segments of time devoted to reading and grab every spare minute you can find. Keep reading materials with you at all times, or at least close at hand.
Albert Mohler
What do we think preaching is but the central act of Christian worship? As a matter of fact, everything else ought to build to the preaching of the Word, for that is when the God of whom we have been speaking and singing speaks to us from His eternal and perfect Word.
Albert Mohler
Patience is a vibrant and virile Christian virtue, which is deeply rooted in the Christian’s absolute confidence in the sovereignty of God and in God’s promise to bring all things to completion in a way that most fully demonstrates His glory.
Albert Mohler
The doctrine of assurance looks into eternity past to the eternal purposes of God, looks into history to the accomplished work of Christ, and looks to the future toward the perfect fulfillment of God’s purpose to redeem a people through His Son.
Albert Mohler
Forgiveness does not restore credibility, and character must be seen as something that can be lost far easier than gained, much less restored.
Albert Mohler
Contrast the priority of convictional intelligence with the models of leadership that are often found and even admired in some Christian circles. Charisma is a great gift, but it cannot substitute for conviction. The same is true of personality skills, gifts of communication, media presence, and organizational ability. None of these things can qualify a Christian leader when conviction is absent or weak.
Albert Mohler
Do not you dare step into the pulpit with anything other than the message of the LORD of hosts.
Albert Mohler
While all Christians affirm the necessity and reality of the experiential dimension of faith, the experience must be grounded in and accountable to the Word of God.
Albert Mohler
Where the authentic preaching of the Word takes place, the church is there. And where that is absent, there is no church. No matter how high the steeple, no matter how large the budget, no matter how impressive the ministry, it is something else.
Albert Mohler
Leaders are the stewards of vision, conviction, beliefs, and strategic decisions.
Albert Mohler
The Christian leader will respect the role of power in leadership but will never glory in it…The Christian leader will serve by leading and lead by serving, knowing that the power of office and leadership is there to be used, but be used toward the right ends and in the right manner. Power can never be seen as an end in itself.
Albert Mohler
We must understand that patience is both a command and a gift from God… As a command, patience arrives at the Christian conscience as a matter of accountability. At the same time, patience is a divine gift. Christians are not able, in and of themselves, to demonstrate true patience as a fruit of the Spirit… [Patience] comes only to those who have been redeemed by Christ and in whom the Holy Spirit is calling forth the fruit of the Spirit.
Albert Mohler
Average leaders are satisfied to use average words in an average way. Effective leaders, those who aspire to lasting and extended influence, will learn to use words as arrows fired from a bow, carefully chosen and aimed in order to accomplish a purpose.
Albert Mohler
Christians must confront a sensate culture with the biblical vision of human sexuality. The Bible offers more than a fallen world can ever imagine, placing sexual pleasure within the holy covenant of marriage, combining restraint with passion, pleasure with protection, sense with sensibility.
Albert Mohler
I stake my life on the priority of right beliefs and convictions, and at the same time I want to lead so that those very beliefs are perpetuated in others. If our leaders are not passionately driven by the right beliefs, we are headed for disaster. At the same time, if believers cannot lead, we are headed nowhere.
Albert Mohler
Redemption. This was promised in the Old Testament, but was fulfilled with the coming of Christ, fully God and fully man, who lived a sinless life and went obediently to suffer death on a cross, dying in our place. God saves us by accepting the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ as full payment for the penalty of sin, and He raised Christ from the dead on the third day, announcing to all the vindication and completion of the Son’s saving work. Salvation is declared to all who believe on His name and confess Him as Savior and Lord.
Albert Mohler
Sex only makes sense within the Christian worldview. Christians, alone on earth, understand by the grace of revelation that God has a purpose for sexuality that eclipses any human aspiration. At the same time, we understand that sex isn’t everything and everything isn’t sex.
Albert Mohler
What does it really mean to affirm God’s sovereignty…? It means that God rules over all space and time and history. It means that He created the world for His glory and directs the cosmos to His purpose. It means that no one can truly thwart His plans or frustrate His determination. It means that we are secure in the knowledge that God’s sovereign purpose to redeem a people through the atonement accomplished by His Son will be fully realized.
Albert Mohler
When a leader walks into the room, a passion for truth had better enter with him. Authentic leadership does not emerge out of a vacuum. The leadership that matters most is convictional—deeply convictional. This quality of leadership springs from those foundational beliefs that shape who we are and establish our beliefs about everything else. Convictions are not merely beliefs we hold; they are those beliefs that hold us in their grip. We would not know who we are but for these bedrock beliefs, and without them we would not know how to lead.
Albert Mohler
Many Christians now speak of the Bible’s metanarrative – its all-encompassing story line. In the Bible, God has revealed the story that underlies every true story, and in which every other true story finds its meaning. That is the story of God’s determination to glorify Himself by saving sinners through the atonement accomplished by His own Son. As Christ Himself made clear, every word of Scripture serves to tell this story.
Albert Mohler
Convictions are the product of both head and heart. There is an emotional component to belief, as well as an intellectual component. The Christian tradition speaks powerfully of the commitment of belief as a matter of the heart. Christian convictions take possession of our heads and hearts through Christian teaching and the preaching of God’s Word. As a matter of fact, most of us gain our most fundamental convictions in just this way – we hear them, see them to be truly revealed in the Bible, and then believe them.
Albert Mohler
Nothing is more important than our understanding of worship, for our concept of worship is inescapably tied to our understanding of God and His sovereign authority to reveal the worship He desires, deserves, and demands.
Albert Mohler
The fear of the Lord is fundamental to the description of the preacher's work.
Albert Mohler
We cannot buy passion, nor can we simply decide to be passionate… Passion arises naturally or not at all. It happens when convictions come to life, and deep beliefs drive visions and plans. The passionate leader is driven by the knowledge that the right beliefs, aimed at the right opportunity, can lead to earth-shaking changes.
Albert Mohler
Humor humanizes and warms the heart. Those who follow you know that you have weaknesses and foibles, so let them share in the humor you direct at yourself. Humor should never be used at another’s expense, but it can be used to make people feel at ease, to relieve tension, and even to affirm humanity. Humor must never be crude or disrespectful, but it can build respect.
Albert Mohler
Not all managers are leaders, but all leaders are managers.
Albert Mohler
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