D.R. Silva Quotes & Sayings

A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet. — D.R. Silva

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree. — D.R. Silva

People who say we are just preaching "extreme grace" must not understand how extremely gracious our Father is. — D.R. Silva

There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers. — D.R. Silva

If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't. — D.R. Silva

I only run from darkness when I'm not confident in my ability to shine. — D.R. Silva

My job as a Christian is not to get people to heaven when they die, it's to get heaven to people while they're alive — D.R. Silva

Christians are famous for telling people to be "child-like" and yet one of the greatest qualities of a child (the never ending list of questions) is often discouraged. — D.R. Silva

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it. — D.R. Silva

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it. — D.R. Silva

We think when Jesus said, "You have heard it said do not commit adultery, but if you even think about it you're guilty," that He was trying to get them to be more obedient to those Laws. He made those Laws impossible. He did so on purpose so they would stop trying to live up to them and put their faith in Him. He wasn't trying to rally them up for holiness when He said, "If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off!" He was telling them how severe the Law really is if they were going to continue trying to live by it, because they had cheapened it and made it doable, just like so many have today. Jesus was saying, "You want to gain holiness and purity that way? Cut off your hand and gouge out your eye if they cause you to sin. Because if you break even one of those Laws, you will be judged for breaking them all."[29] — D.R. Silva

The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will. — D.R. Silva

I didn't know what to do when I realized that a religion that promised me heaven only seemed to bring me a perpetual hell. I was made to believe that was the normal Christian life; then I heard the gospel. — D.R. Silva

People always want the bad guy to pay for his sin, until they're him. — D.R. Silva

I used to be afraid of the dark until I learned that I am light and the dark is afraid of me. — D.R. Silva

Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be. — D.R. Silva

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. — D.R. Silva

How can a God who said, "Love your enemies" spend so much time killing His own? — D.R. Silva

If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way? — D.R. Silva

You don't need a Master's in Theology to love people. — D.R. Silva

Only Jesus is perfect!" isn't in the Bible. — D.R. Silva

Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so. — D.R. Silva

Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer. — D.R. Silva

Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity. — D.R. Silva

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it. — D.R. Silva

What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That's what happened the first time, after all. — D.R. Silva

Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be. — D.R. Silva

We get called dishonoring for pointing out the garbage in the church, yet nobody ever seems to think it's dishonoring that somebody put the garbage there in the first place. — D.R. Silva

Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for. — D.R. Silva

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery. — D.R. Silva