Inspirational Quotes by Erwin Lutzer

“Week 26”

“Hemos perdido la capacidad para juzgar al mundo porque hemos perdido la habilidad de juzgarnos a nosotros mismos. Afirmamos ciertas creencias y luego actuamos como si no importaran en realidad.”

“La verdad mezclada con el error es más letal que el error por sí solo.”

“La verdad ha desaparecido y pocos han notado su ausencia.”

“Por eso, si usted piensa que tiene la “verdad”, las reglas de cortesía le exigen que se abstenga de expresar sus pensamientos.”

“Razi Zacharias pregunta: “¿Cómo podemos comunicar el evangelio a una generación que oye con sus ojos y piensa con sus sentimientos?”

“First, there is no place that we must go that He has not been; He has gone before us, in death and resurrection. He does not expect us to enter a dark room that He Himself has not first entered. Our Lord goes ahead of us and promises us that we shall “see him as he is.”

“He is as much with us as He was with Mary. We, like her, have to understand that Christ’s presence is not dependent on the location of His physical body. She had to be weaned from the notion that physical contact superseded the spiritual connection.”

“He is among us even when we cannot see Him and when our grief distorts reality. There are many tears in our hearts that never reach our eyes. There are times of darkness and betrayal that make us wonder how we can live another day. As for God, He seems far away, uninterested, and absent.”

“Suffering does not reflect unfavorably on the promises of Scripture. We take heart that there is another world coming, in which all of the promised blessings will be realized. Just as God does not create a single fish without creating water in which it can swim, so God does not create longings for eternity without creating an eternity in which those longings will be fulfilled.”

“Every shattered dream we give to Jesus is integrated into a higher and even more blessed purpose. In short, if we have faith to believe it, there are no wasted sorrows, no wasted aspirations or dreams. Even in this life, we see that God is continually reshaping whatever we give Him. Indeed, the Christian life is a series of new beginnings. God Himself rushes in to fill the vacuum left in the wake of our own disappointments. Dreams left unfulfilled in this life will most assuredly be fulfilled in the life to come. Jesus brought our dream of healthy bodies back with Him when He was raised from the dead. Take a long look at the person sitting next to you in church. Someday he or she will be like Jesus! “Because I live, you also will live” (John 14:19). To those who are brokenhearted, Jesus assures us that fulfilling family relationships will be ours.”

“Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.”

“One subtle arena of attack is in the area of pride. Praying people can become prideful about their praying. Non-participants can become prideful in their resistance. The enemy seeks to divide and conquer every initiative of prayer.”

“In church life, prayer is not the only thing we do but must be the first thing we do. It can become the very environment of the ministry. It must be our first resolve not our last resort if our work is to be marked by the unmistakable power of the Holy Spirit. And this will take years, even decades. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it.”

“It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business in the morning and the last in the evening. Guard yourself against such false and deceitful thoughts that keep whispering: Wait a while. In an hour or so I will pray. I must first finish this or that. Thinking such thoughts we get away from prayer into other things that will hold us and involve us till the prayer of the day comes to naught.”

“•  If my activity is human in origin, it will fail. •  If my activity is from God, nobody will be able to stop it.”

“There is a difference between a church that prays and a praying church. One has prayer programs. The other develops a prayer culture.”

“our real need is not to be “relevant” through new self-styled efforts to morph into a more palatable version of faith. Our need is to be revived in the New Testament essence of church leadership that will answer a hostile and wary culture with a display of all that makes Christianity unique and triumphant—the power of the Gospel, lived and proclaimed in supernatural power.”

“[R]eal prayer is not an excuse for laziness but, in fact, is one of the most arduous engagements I know of in ministry. Prayer is not a replacement for hard work but, in most cases, empowerment for even more fruitful work.”

“When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about “it” (prayer) but are infectious about “Him”