Colin S. Smith

Quotes

• “There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh ...”
• “When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He i...”
• “Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I...”
• “Lord, make me less like Jonah and more like Jesus. Save me from being the kind of person who cares more about my comfort...”
• “Early on in the Bible story, we will discover the devil taking on the form of an animal. At the center of the Bible stor...”
• “He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depen...”
• “Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs...”
• “The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s pe...”
• “Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we ...”
• “God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and ...”
• “Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing pre...”
• “If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be ...”
• “If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and a...”
• “I am so glad that Jesus does not say, “Practice more spiritual disciplines.” He says, “Come to me…and I will give you re...”
• “Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.”
• “The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.”
• “Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.”
• “The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.”
• “Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?”
• “Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.”
• “Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.”