Adam Hamilton Quotes

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

My hope is that 'Beyond the Heavens' will encourage people to explore faith, open their mind and go beyond what they think they know. That is what my mother encouraged me to do. I hope to encourage others to do the same through this story.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

I think there's a passion for God like never before.

We're very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we're inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that's how we're raising our daughter.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I have a deep faith in God.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.

If you aren't passionate about a vision, it's hard to have faith in it.

And in cases where profound conviction has been wrought, the eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief. It agitates and tears him, and perhaps almost bereaves him of the power of articulation.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

Spiritual Work is not easy. It means the willingness to surrender feelings that seem, while we're in them, like our defense against a greater pain. It means that we surrender to God our perceptions of all things.