Adrian Rogers Quotes & Sayings

Foolish people spend time and money poring over horoscopes and consulting so-called psychics trying to see the dark unknown. How much better to walk through life holding the hand of One who knows the way and cares for us! — Adrian Rogers

You can laugh your way into hell but not out. — Adrian Rogers

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service. — Adrian Rogers

Your character is the harvest of your habits. — Adrian Rogers

God put a cross between you and hell. If you want to go to hell, you will have to crawl over the cross of Jesus. — Adrian Rogers

There are those who say that children make a rich man poor. No, they have it backward. Children make a poor man rich. A rich man can't take his riches to heaven, but I'm taking my children — Adrian Rogers

God does not change us in order to love us. He loves us in order to change us. — Adrian Rogers

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong. — Adrian Rogers

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God. — Adrian Rogers

Pray and doubt; you'll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive. — Adrian Rogers

Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it. — Adrian Rogers

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God. — Adrian Rogers

Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us. — Adrian Rogers

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe. — Adrian Rogers

Quote of the Day The late Dr. Adrian Rogers (1931-2005) offered the following observation several years ago and it bears poignant significance today: You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the rich out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply the wealth by dividing it. — Adrian Rogers

Anything with no head is dead, and anything with two heads is a freak. — Adrian Rogers

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth. — Adrian Rogers

Come to Jesus. Come to Jesus. — Adrian Rogers

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think. — Adrian Rogers

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government can't give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody. And when half of the people get the idea they don't have to work because the other half's going to take care of them, and when the other half get the idea it does no good to work because somebody's going to get what I work for. That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation. — Adrian Rogers

God is never in a hurry, but God is never late — Adrian Rogers

There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you. — Adrian Rogers

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again. — Adrian Rogers

Lack of wealth cannot take away genuine contentment. — Adrian Rogers

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth. — Adrian Rogers

What Jesus will do with you is determined on what you will do with him. — Adrian Rogers

Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder. — Adrian Rogers

If Satan can't make you bad, he'll make you busy. — Adrian Rogers

You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart. — Adrian Rogers

Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration. — Adrian Rogers

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything! — Adrian Rogers

A healthy person can accept criticism. — Adrian Rogers

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon. — Adrian Rogers

Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive! — Adrian Rogers

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it. — Adrian Rogers

Never let the things money can buy, rob you of the things money can't buy. — Adrian Rogers

When you have His joy in your heart, it doesn't necessarily mean your pain or hurt will be taken away. It means you'll be able to bear it. — Adrian Rogers

The Mafia and crime bosses of this world are amateurs compared to this syndicate, ruled by the prince of darkness and the master of deception who wears many disguises and has many aliases. — Adrian Rogers

Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today. — Adrian Rogers

Study the history of revival. God has always sent revival in the darkest days. Oh, for a mighty, sweeping revival today! — Adrian Rogers

You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation. — Adrian Rogers

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart. — Adrian Rogers

I wouldn't trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven. — Adrian Rogers

Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. — Adrian Rogers

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God? — Adrian Rogers

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future. — Adrian Rogers

You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God. — Adrian Rogers

Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands. — Adrian Rogers

God doesn't need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God's way to grow Christians. — Adrian Rogers

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship. — Adrian Rogers

Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God. — Adrian Rogers

I may be a nut, but I'm fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ. — Adrian Rogers

You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you. — Adrian Rogers

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man. — Adrian Rogers

The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand. — Adrian Rogers

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking. — Adrian Rogers

There can be no mercy without truth. — Adrian Rogers

The church is not the way to heaven; the church is the sign that points to heaven. — Adrian Rogers

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else. — Adrian Rogers

I believe in miracles, but I trust in Jesus. If you believe the Bible, you know that God is a miracle-working God. And God is not limited in any degree nor any respect. He is totally sovereign. Do you believe that? I hope you do. Believe in miracles, but don't put your faith in miracles. Put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. — Adrian Rogers

If you live for this world, you are in the junk business. It's all just premature junk. — Adrian Rogers

If you need encouragement, give it. If you need love, give it.Whatever you need, give it away. — Adrian Rogers

God never got around to creating a substitute for experience. — Adrian Rogers

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience. — Adrian Rogers

The resurrection is not merely important to the historic Christian faith; without it, there would be no Christianity. It is the singular doctrine that elevates Christianity above all other world religions. — Adrian Rogers

Adrian Rogers told us as often as he could he took the Bible literally. He illustrated by saying he believed the world was created in six 24-hour days. And he repeated this to make an impression upon us. In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament. Did he take them literally? He paused and said, 'Well, I believe slavery is a much-maligned institution. If we had slavery today, we would not have this welfare mess.' — Adrian Rogers

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation. — Adrian Rogers

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up. — Adrian Rogers

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God. — Adrian Rogers

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted. — Adrian Rogers

Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says 'For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.' — Adrian Rogers

It is more important to influence people than to impress them. — Adrian Rogers

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. — Adrian Rogers

I'm a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody. — Adrian Rogers

Remember again the principle: We will never be over those things that God has set under us until we learn to be under those things that God has placed over us. There is strength through surrender. Are you under the Word of God? Is the Bible your mandate for life? Are you loving it, reading it, obeying it, and living it? Are you consciously filled with the Holy Spirit? Have you yielded every part of the temple of your body to him? Are you grieving him in any way? Are you graciously submitting to those human authorities that God has set over you: in the home, in the church, in civil government, and in the workplace? Have you made Jesus Christ the absolute Lord over everything in your life? — Adrian Rogers

A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry. — Adrian Rogers

The gospel is simply glorious and gloriously simple. — Adrian Rogers

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it. — Adrian Rogers

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record. — Adrian Rogers

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18). — Adrian Rogers

You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever" — Adrian Rogers

It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what's going on in today's world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington. — Adrian Rogers

If you have a Bible that's falling apart, you'll have a life that's not. — Adrian Rogers

Thank God for the Bible, the Word of God. — Adrian Rogers

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, I'll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now. — Adrian Rogers

The Church is not a showboat; it's a battleship. — Adrian Rogers

The Bible is not primarily a science book. It is not written to tell us how the heavens go; it is written to tell us how to go to heaven. But when it speaks on science, it is accurate. — Adrian Rogers

If you make your decisions based on comfort, before long you will be uncomfortable. — Adrian Rogers

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life. — Adrian Rogers

Never, never, never join a movement that persecutes people because of their faith. — Adrian Rogers

Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol. — Adrian Rogers

Theres heaven in the sweet by and by but there is to be victory in the nasty now and now. — Adrian Rogers

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved. — Adrian Rogers

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice. — Adrian Rogers

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system. — Adrian Rogers

The Devil will use our words and his dictionary. — Adrian Rogers

The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God's Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God. — Adrian Rogers

Two words that will change your life ... Yes Lord! — Adrian Rogers

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity. — Adrian Rogers

Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows. — Adrian Rogers