Michael Horton Quotes

Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct of right decisions, godly reactions, and the application of spiritual principles to daily circumstances.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

May every Church and Christian community be a place of mercy amid so much indifference.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

If we are ever going to develop an ability to hear from God and be led by His Spirit, we have to start making our own decisions and trust the wisdom God has deposited in our own heart.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

Without God's Spirit, there is nothing we can do that will count for God's kingdom. Without God's Spirit, the church simply can't be the church.

Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.

Christian community is the place where we keep the flame of hope alive among us and take it seriously so that it can grow and become stronger in us.

One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.

He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.

Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God.

The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

Faith is like a tender plant, rooted in Christ alone, watered by the Spirit and the Word, strengthened by the winds of adversity and the sunshine of blessing.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians.

We are older by faith than by experience.

All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, "the right way to the city of habitation".

Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

We may go to church once a week, but our Christian life is daily - step-by-step.

You need to be in fellowship of a church...If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.

Let him who wants a true church cling to the Word by which everything is upheld.