Adam Hamilton Quotes

As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

A man can preach no better than he prays.

When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.

All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every stage of life.

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

I want to help people understand how to study the Scriptures with other people, to give them an overview of Scripture and assume that by understanding the Scriptures better, the Holy Spirit will bring to mind the right stories, the right teachings.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

One of my passions is helping people understand the Word. I think the most important thing we should be thinking about is who created us and how we were created to live. So I thought that I want to spend a lot of my time actually studying God's Word.

Christians need to embrace that there need to be believers talking about love and social issues and all other aspects of life.

I would like the secular world to know that the Scriptures are about the things that we wrestle with every day. The Scriptures are not ignorant. Life is really hard. We know that things don't always go well and that our hearts don't naturally obey God.

There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said in his word, so I don't have to come up with a bunch of new stuff to say.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

Read the Bible for the salvation of your soul, not the solution to your problem.

You must go to God's Word to know what is true about yourself.

Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest.

The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, "I am the Lord thy God," I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher.

If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.