Inspirational Quotes by Fred G. Zaspel

“And thus, instead of a mere record of a revelation given in the past, we have the ever-living word of God; instead of a mere tradition however guarded, we have what we have all learned to call in a unique sense “the Scriptures.”

“When we lose hope in ourselves, when the present becomes dark and the future black before us, when effort after effort has issued only in disheartening failure, and our sin looms big before our despairing eyes; when our hearts hate and despise themselves, and we remember that God is greater than our hearts and cannot abide the least iniquity; the Spirit whom He has sent to bring us to Him still labors with us, not in indifference or hatred, but in pitying love. Yea, His love burns all the stronger because we so deeply need His help: He is yearning after us with jealous envy.”

“We live unto Christ, to the glory of God, not out of a vacuum but out of a mind and heart captivated and inflamed by an understanding of God’s greatness and goodness and his saving activity in Christ. This”

“The entirety of the Christian life and experience is our response to revealed truth.”

“In short, Christianity is a religion that has a message to proclaim, and thus it is preeminently a doctrinal religion. It seeks by the propagation of truth to save the lost and rule their lives.”

“If we have no doctrine, we have no Christianity. If we have scanty doctrine, we have scanty Christianity. If we have profoundly informed convictions, we will have a solid and substantial Christianity. If we do not think right thoughts about God, we will not worship him as he desires and deserves to be worshiped, and we will not experience the life intended for us. If we misunderstand Christian doctrine, it will result in a distortion or dwarfing of our religious life in some measure. The deeper and clearer our understanding of Christian truth, the greater will be its sanctifying effect on us. “The”