Inspirational Quotes by John MacArthur
“When you remember who owns you, acknowledge the covenant of obedience you made at salvation, recognize sin as a violation of your relationship with God, learn to control your imagination, and live to advance God's kingdom, you will become a self-disciplined person who pleases the Lord.”
“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22”
“False doctrine was threatening to disconnect the Philippian believers from their source of joy in Jesus Christ.”
“in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5†Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6†do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7†And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
“But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, 18to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.”
“Be not among drunkards [5] or among gluttonous eaters of meat, 21for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.”
“do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and t a thousand years as one day. 9[†] u The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise v as some count slowness, but w is patient toward you, [1] x not wishing that any should perish, but y that all should reach repentance. 10[†]But z the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then a the heavens will pass away with a roar, and b the heavenly bodies [2] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.”
“The greatest display of humility that the world has ever witnessed was the incarnation of Christ, which led ultimately to his crucifixion.”
“Economist Walter Williams explains why: “The relative color blindness of the market accounts for much of the hostility towards it. Markets have a notorious lack of respect for privilege, race, and class structures.”63 If woke leaders truly wanted “fairness” and “equity,” they would be unabashed supporters of the free market.”
“Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless, 11†for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.”
“None of this, we note, is according to human wisdom. None of it is according to human design. None of it is dependent on human effort. All of it is dependent on and driven by God. All of it is intensely countercultural, then and now. To a watching world that asks us what our answer is for alienation and hostility, we say two things: (1) the cross, and (2) the Church. The cross alone has the power to create a new humanity, a new people, a new race birthed by God.”
“Take Christ from Christianity, and you disembowel it; there is practically nothing left. Christ is the centre of Christianity, all else is circumference." (Basic Christianity, page 27)”
“the father of the child cried out [4] and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
“our culture and society are falling prey to what we call “monocausality.” This means that we trace very complex realities to just one simple factor”
“For those in Christ, death becomes the means of graduating to glory and gaining access into the presence of Christ. Such a sure hope gives us confidence to live day by day to the fullest.”
“Our weakness is actually part of the strength of the Christian faith. We are not the point. We are not sinless, and we are not the Savior. Like every sinner, we are the ones who need the Savior—and need Him desperately.”
“The cross of Christ gives us God’s ultimate resolution of the justice-mercy conundrum. The same cross satisfies divine justice and secures divine mercy. This shows us that justice is retributive, not distributive, even as it reveals that the satisfaction of justice enables the experience of mercy. God does not set aside His justice in the death of His Son; He meets the full terms of His holy nature through the cross.”
“Man talks much about justice, but he knows not of what he speaks. In this passage and others, justice is not a means of redistributing privilege (per the narratives of the underprivileged). Biblical justice is retributive in nature, recompensing people for their deeds.”
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John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.
MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.