Anne Graham Lotz Quotes

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Satan’s successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

God has ordained that Satan have a long leash with God holding on to the leash because he knows that when we walk in and out of those temptations, struggling with both the physical effects that they bring and the moral effects that they bring, more of God's glory will shine.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

The devil is busy and trying to distort and adulterate the things that are the pure essence of God.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.