Inspirational Quotes by John MacArthur
“So we conclude, in joy and in hope: For the Church, the scattering has ended. God is gathering His people to Himself. Sin’s power has been broken by the cross of Christ, the most powerful event in history. The work of salvific recreation is more powerful even than the original creation, majestic as that was. God is making a way out of this depraved world. His people have suffered many things and committed many sins. They have walked, and are even now walking, through a fallen order that hates God, denies human image-bearing, ignores divine grace, focuses its attention on man-made justice and man-driven eschatology, pays no mind to the cross as the power of God to cleanse and unify His people, and ultimately shakes its fist at God all the way unto destruction.”
“The struggle to end slavery, the slave trade, Jim Crow, and segregation required tremendous sacrifice from men and women of diverse roots and perspectives. Many identified as born-again believers, and some definitely did not. This mix notwithstanding, there are many to honor in this regard, and there is a big and important counter-narrative to the dominant “whiteness drove racism” paradigm, true as that is in numerous ways.”
“In America, the argument goes, common people are not leading lives of quiet dignity; they are either oppressing others or being oppressed.”
“As humans, we are not fundamentally different but fundamentally alike.5 We are one human race, not many different “races.” The very concept of race, in fact, is man-made. While it is true that there are certain differences between people groups (physiologically, for example), we have no biblical grounds for splicing humanity up into many “races.” Racial theory, in fact, owes to genuine racists, who made it up to exalt themselves and justify their evil partiality.”
“This is where we see Critical Race Theory and wokeness truly closing the door, locking it, and throwing away the key. The solution to the problem of racial prejudice is prejudice, just of a different kind. In CRT thinking, “The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination.”16 You must, in other words, undertake a never-ending litany of works that work against your fundamentally racist nature. You cannot overcome such a condition, but like an alcoholic, you can manage it. If you’re “white,” for example, you can and should try to “be less white” every day you live.”
“Said stronger, we become what we set out to oppose. In striving to defeat racism—an honorable goal—we unwittingly end up disliking and judging people of a certain skin color. Wokeness promises justice but begets injustice.”
“54Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my sojourning. 55I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law. 56This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.”
“And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, j choose this day whom you will serve, whether h the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or k the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. l But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; r and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
“ROMANS—NOTE ON 4:17 as it is written. Quoted from Gen. 17:5. gives life to the dead. Abraham had experienced this firsthand (Heb. 11:11–12; cf. Rom. 4:19). calls into existence the things that do not exist. This is another reference to the forensic nature of justification. God can declare believing sinners to be righteous even though they are not, by imputing his righteousness to them, just as God made or declared Jesus “sin” and punished him, though he was not a sinner. Those whom he justifies, he will conform to the image of his Son (Rom. 8:29–30).”
“those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.”
“this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12‡†We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. 13†Do not be surprised, brothers, [3] that the world hates you. 14†We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. 15†Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16†By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17†But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? 18†Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
“6So she went down to the threshing floor and did just as her mother-in-law had commanded her. 7[†]And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and o his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.”
“But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.”
“Culture, social order, and external ceremony have no bearing on spiritual life. What matters is faith and obedience.”
“are those who hunger and x thirst y for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”
“Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal him.”
“careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, [3] which he obtained with his own blood. [4] 29†I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30†and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31†Therefore be alert,”
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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.