Adrian Rogers quotes:

The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions.

Have you ever wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like? 1. They would all attend every service 2. They would all tithe 3. They would all work in the church 4. They would all go to hell

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases.

Satan wants to cripple me and then blame me for limping.

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

I believe you have to keep the theological standard high; the Lord said, 'Be perfect,' and the leaders have to be striving for that standard with all there is in them.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today!

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away.

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.

It's about time we stopped buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.

If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.'

Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.

Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.

If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

But I believe the greatest enemy of the Bible is the so-called Christian who simply ignores the Bible or disregards it.

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it.

Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.'

Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy.

And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

Itâ??s what you sow that multiplies, not what you keep in the barn.

Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

I wouldnâ??t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus.

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.

If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy.

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

Men study science as god not the God of science.

You can be too big for God to use, but you can never be too small for God to use.

The Bible says the fruit of the spirit is longsuffering. I'll tell you one thing about fruit: you will never see a fruit factory. Isn't that right? You see a shirt factory, but you see a fruit orchard. You see, there is no fruit without life. You cannot manufacture patience. The fruit of the Spirit is patience.

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

The church persecuted is the church pure, and the church pure is the church powerful. I believe that Americans by and large have been cursed with blessings, and perhaps before long we'll be blessed with cursings. However, the assaults against the church will be turned around, and everything that the enemy meant for harm will ultimately be used for good.

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now.

A marriage is not primarily a duet but a holy trio.

Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

The devils more orthodox than some theologians I know.

Sometimes we smile at a child thats afraid of the dark. I think more ridiculous is a man or woman afraid of the light.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

Your character is the harvest of your habits.

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak.

To be almost saved is to be totally lost.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

When a man jumps out of a ten-story building, he doesn't break the law of gravity, he demonstrates it.

It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

Every time you say no to Jesus Christ, it makes it that much harder for you to say yes to Jesus Christ.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.

You can't just tip your hat to Jesus; you must bow your knee.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

The reason that so many times we don't win the battle is that we never show up for the war!

It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

I am the visible part of the invisible Christ. He is the invisible part of the visible me.

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, â??Iâ??ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

God is never in a hurry, but God is never late

A healthy person can accept criticism.