Quotes by John MacArthur

John MacArthur (1939–2025) — Pastor der Grace Community Church, Autor, Leiter von 'Grace to You' · evangelikal / reformiert-baptistisch · USA

John MacArthur (1939–2025) war ein US-amerikanischer reformiert-baptistischer Pastor und Autor, der von 1969 bis zu seinem Tod die Grace Community Church in Kalifornien leitete. Bekannt durch die international verbreitete „MacArthur-Studienbibel“, stand er für fortlaufende Vers-für-Vers-Auslegungspredigten sowie eine strikte Abgrenzung gegenüber der charismatischen Bewegung. Bibellesern dient sein Lebenswerk als detailreiches konservatives Nachschlagewerk, während seine theologische Schärfe sowie Berichte über den gemeindlichen Umgang mit Missbrauchsfällen für anhaltende Kontroversen sorgen.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Guilt & Forgiveness, Growth & Character, Love, Hope & Confidence, Humility & Pride

Quotes by John MacArthur

God always finishes what He starts.
John MacArthur

On the cross, God treated Jesus as if he had lived your life, so that God could treat you as if you had lived Jesus' life.
John MacArthur

The cross shows us how much God wants all people to be saved.
John MacArthur

God is more interested in your faithfulness than in your achievements.
John MacArthur

In Christ we have unlimited forgiveness for all sins – past, present, and future.
John MacArthur

Jesus can make an impulsive and wavering Christian as steady as a rock.
John MacArthur

God can use you despite your sinful past.
John MacArthur

Because of His mercy, God does not punish you as your sins deserve.
John MacArthur

Love lifts others up; pride lifts itself up.
John MacArthur

When you love someone, you don't keep a record of their offenses.
John MacArthur

Love refuses to regard human failure as final.
John MacArthur

Do not confuse the prisoner of war with the enemy.
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God uses your present circumstances to carry out His later plans.
John MacArthur

The weaker the human instrument, the more clearly the grace of God shines forth.
John MacArthur

Feelings are a poor foundation for marriage, but they can be a wonderful, glorious by-product.
John MacArthur

God gives us His grace in the hour we need it. If we worry about the future now, we double our pain without having the grace to deal with it.
John MacArthur

Salvation is the exchange of all that we are for all that He is
John MacArthur

All death can do to the believer is deliver him to Jesus. It brings us into the eternal presence of our Savior.
John MacArthur

It is wonderful to have a high regard for the truth, but zeal for the truth must be balanced by a love for people, or it can give way to judgmentalism, harshness, and a lack of compassion.
John MacArthur

No sin a believer can commit – past, present or future – can be held against him, since the penalty was paid by Christ and righteousness was imputed to the believer. And no sin will ever reverse this divine legal decision.
John MacArthur

Prayer is the muscle that activates the arm of omnipotence.
John MacArthur

Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing.
John MacArthur

Satan is most effective in the church when he comes not as an open enemy, but as a false friend; not when he persecutes the church, but when he joins it; not when he attacks the pulpit, but when he stands in it.
John MacArthur

The pleasure of sin is brief while the sorrow it produces lasts; the sorrow of repentance is brief, while the joy it produces lasts.
John MacArthur

The preacher is not a chef; he’s a waiter. God doesn’t want you to make the meal; He just wants you to deliver it to the table without messing it up. That’s all.
John MacArthur

Those who experience the most suffering will receive the most comfort. And those who receive the most comfort are thereby most richly equipped to comfort others (see 2 Cor.1:3-4).
John MacArthur

We cannot sin beyond God’s grace, because as wicked and extensive as our sins might be or become, they will never approach the greatness of His grace.
John MacArthur

Where sin has been removed death can only interrupt the earthly life and usher in the heavenly.
John MacArthur

Trying to be good enough to be justified before God is a heavy burden that no one can carry.
John MacArthur

God desires so much for people to be saved that He gave the One He loved most, His Son, and sent Him to die on the cross. That is the measure of His love, and that shows how much God desires people to be saved!
John MacArthur

Cold orthodoxy will never replace a warm and vital relationship with God.
John MacArthur

Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as if you were standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!
John MacArthur

Some people get so caught up in their own holiness that they look at the Trinity for a possible vacancy.
John MacArthur

God’s will may not be the perfection of the true believer’s life, but it is the direction of it.
John MacArthur

The sin is not in having more, the sin is being discontent. The sin is not in having wealth, the sin is in what you do with it. It’s not the amount, it’s the attitude… It’s not about what you have, it’s about how you feel about what you have.
John MacArthur

The simplicity of the gospel gives what the complexity of human wisdom promises but never delivers.
John MacArthur

God's willingness to save sinners is greater than sinners' willingness to be saved.
John MacArthur

My life is expendable if a young man can come to faith through me.
John MacArthur

Jump into the river of God's working and let yourself be carried by him to the goal of his will.
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The gospel alone transforms sinners into saints and transplants men and women from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's beloved Son – out of eternal death into everlasting life.
John MacArthur

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