Tim LaHaye Quotes

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. I had always owned them to be the Word of GOD . . . the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by GOD.

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since.

Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

We cannot arrive at the perfect possession of God in this life, and that is why we are travelling and in darkness. But we already possess Him by grace, and therefore in that sense we have arrived and are dwelling in the light. But oh! How far have I to go to find You in Whom I have already arrived!

There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.

It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.

Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.

If asked whether I am finally letting God love me, just as I am, I would answer, 'No, but I'm trying.

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.

The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.

The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

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