Quotes by John F. MacArthur Jr.

“When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.”

“When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.”

“Once I was free in the shackles of sin:Free to be tempted, just bound to give in;Free to be captive to any desire;Free to eternally burn in hells fire.Til Someone bought me and called me His slave:...”

“What you cant forget... God cant remember!”

“The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.”

“You cant confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.”

“People act what they truly believe.”

“Expect progress, not perfection.”

“When programs, methods, and money produce impressive results, there is an inclination to confuse human success with divine blessing. Christians can actually behave like practical humanists, living ...”

“No spiritual exercise is such a blending of complexity and simplicity. It is the simplest form of speech that infant lips can try, yet the sublimest strains that reach the Majesty on high. It is as...”

“Centering our thoughts on God begins with what I like to call discovery. That is, when we discover a great truth about God, we begin to meditate on that truth until it captivates our whole thinking...”

“Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than f...”

“Look in your local Christian Bookstore. You could take most of the books there, throw them into the sea, and not lose anything valuable. The vast majority of them are just placebos that superficial...”

“The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hel...”

“To be Spirit-filled is to be Christ-centered.”

“Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it's to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do not have a moral agenda; we have a redemptive agen...”

“A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.”

“Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our app...”

“Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.”

“If Im not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace Ive been shown?”