Inspirational Quotes by John MacArthur
“blessing of the LORD makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. [1] 23Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.”
“While Jews and Gentiles each have their own background, Christ has become their primary identity, their ultimate identity.”
“the knowledge of the Son of God. This does not refer to salvation knowledge but to the deep knowledge of Christ that a believer comes to have through prayer, faithful study of his word, and obedience to his commands (cf. Phil. 3:8–10, 12; Col. 1:9–10; 2:2; see note on 1 John 2:12–14).”
“43There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.”
“Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.”
“PSALM 127 [†] Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD x watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. 2[†] It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious y toil; for he gives to his z beloved a sleep. 3[†] Behold, b children are a heritage from the LORD, c the fruit of the womb a reward. 4[†] Like arrows in the hand of d a warrior are the children [1] of one’s youth. 5 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies e in the gate. [2]”
“The Gentile libertines boasted about their sin and abused Christian liberty to defend their behavior (1 Cor. 6:12). earthly things. The Judaizers were preoccupied with ceremonies, feasts, sacrifices, and other kinds of physical observances. The Gentile libertines simply loved the world itself and all the things in it (cf. James 4:4;”
“m For the time is coming when people will not endure n sound [1] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,”
“Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.”
“yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.”
“Thus, sinning against your brothers [5] and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.”
“Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, 18lest the LORD see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.”
“It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.”
“It is difficult to underplay how significant this point is. If in practice we make truth narrative-driven and relative rather than theistic and absolute, we lose truth. If we lose truth—true truth, normative and norming truth derived from the meaning of biblical texts—then we lose the superstructure of the Gospel and the Christian faith.”
“race” is not a defined biblical reality, and that instead Scripture drives us to see all humanity as one race, one given an identity by God through the imago Dei and offered God’s mercy even in the face of our shared depravity.”
“We all naturally want a father who loves us. We all deeply desire a father who brings us safety and security and blessing and belonging. But in a world that is fallen and shot through with sin, the reality is this: finding such comforts is difficult indeed. Scripture tells us, however, how we may finally and lastingly come home to the heavenly Father. We are told how we may find what we were designed for. It is not through might, or pedigree, or works, or human ingenuity. It is all through the blood of Christ.”
“But as Ken Ham has shown, the “so-called ‘racial’ characteristics that people think are major differences (skin color, eye shape, etc.) account for only 0.012 percent of human biological variation.” On the specific subject of skin color, the presence of more melanin means “lighter” skin color; less melanin means “darker” skin color. So Ham concludes: “No one really has red, or yellow, or black skin. We all have the same basic color, just different shades of it. We all share the same pigments—our bodies just have different combinations of them.”11 In scientific terms, this means, according to Ham, that the differences between people groups are “absolutely trivial.”12”
“I do not doubt that woke leaders think they are helping minority voices. But as Steele attests, liberal and woke solutions to our societal conditions often hurt more than they help. They divide more than they unite. They service “white guilt” and cultivate dependence rather than creating biblical oneness.”
“We must thus be very wary of any worldview that loses sight of the uniqueness and dignity of the individual and trains some to see themselves as victims. The call of Christ is to reject victimhood, take ownership of our sin, and find freedom in the Kingdom of God through the grace of God.”
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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.