Josh McDowell Quotes

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

A lot of people say, well how can a loving God send anyone to hell? First of all God doesn't send anyone to hell. If we go to hell, it's by our own choice. But when somebody says to me, how can a loving God allow anyone to go to hell, I'll turn around and say, "Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?"

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Jesus Christ... came into the world to vindicate the infinite worth of God's holiness which had been desecrated by our sin and which seemed... to be taken lightly because it was being passed over for nothing more than the blood of bulls.

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.

For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin.

Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.

Some of the men spoke of God: His mysterious ways, the sins of the Jewish people, and the redemption to come. As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.