Max Anders famous quotes

No amount of temporal success can compensate for the loss of God's approval.
-- Max Anders

#Loss #Approval #Amount

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.
-- Max Anders

#Errors #Risk #Doctrine

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them.
-- Max Anders

#Able #Problem #Enough

Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.
-- Max Anders

#Jesus #Essentials #Might

Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him.
-- Max Anders

#People #Identity #Faithfulness

When believers neglect the revealed Word of God, they are likely to turn to silly and unprofitable methods of insight.
-- Max Anders

#Silly #Neglect #Method

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection.
-- Max Anders

#Rejection #Affection #Mark

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.
-- Max Anders

#Character #Reputation #Determine

The Lord longs to exalt His people as trophies of His work in them.
-- Max Anders

#People #Trophies #Lord

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others.
-- Max Anders

#Christian #Wise #Spiritual

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.
-- Max Anders

#Regard

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Character #People

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Enemy #Development

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others.
-- Max Anders

#Discouragement #Contagious

Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Struggle #Growth

The choice of a mate is crucial because no one has a greater influence on our spiritual lives.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Choices #Influence

God never forgets a promise.
-- Max Anders

#Promise #Never Forget #Forget

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Godly #Gone

A concern for doctrinal purity should always be based on love of the Lord, not a desire to express spiritual pride.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Pride #Desire

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past.
-- Max Anders

#Past #Reality #World

A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God.
-- Max Anders

#Statements

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.
-- Max Anders

#Long #Lasts #Our Lives

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Deception #Worship

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.
-- Max Anders

#Missing #Shame #Uncivilized

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.
-- Max Anders

#Done #Celebration #Goodness

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress.
-- Max Anders

#Christian #Spiritual #Powerful

Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #People #Growth

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.
-- Max Anders

#Encounters #Substitutes #Word Of God

Wisdom lies in recognizing the dangers that lie within us and doing battle with them daily.
-- Max Anders

#Lying #Battle #Danger

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.
-- Max Anders

#Pride #Discipline #Faces

While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.
-- Max Anders

#Godly #People #Rejects

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content.
-- Max Anders

#Mars #Messages #Firsts

The agonies of those who are falsely accused are of great concern to the living God, and He acts as their defender.
-- Max Anders

#Agony #Falsely Accused #Concern

God is not naïve in the giving of His laws; He anticipates our disobedience even as He commands our obedience.
-- Max Anders

#Law #Giving #Obedience

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.
-- Max Anders

#People #Delight #Rejoice

Sometimes believers are hampered in their public effectiveness by limitations that are no fault of their own.
-- Max Anders

#Effectiveness #Faults #Sometimes

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.
-- Max Anders

#Want #Interest #Well Being

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.
-- Max Anders

#Jesus #Perspective #Daily Problems

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.
-- Max Anders

#People #Guilty #Made

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings.
-- Max Anders

#Law #People #Want

Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so.
-- Max Anders

#Needs #Ministry #Serving God

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ.
-- Max Anders

#Tasks #Christ #Evangelism

Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.
-- Max Anders

#Love Is #Use #Factors

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.
-- Max Anders

#Wealth #Intimacy #Materials

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Memories #Good Memories

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.
-- Max Anders

#Justice #Risk #Patterns

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.
-- Max Anders

#Blessing #People #Wicked

God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.
-- Max Anders

#People #May #Causes

Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Stress #Given

The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark.
-- Max Anders

#Believe #Doors #Missing

Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline.
-- Max Anders

#Discipline #Confusion #Divine

No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.
-- Max Anders

#Overcoming #Determined #Willfulness

Conversion engages the mind as well as the emotions.
-- Max Anders

#Mind #Emotion #Wells

Distance is no barrier to the love of God.
-- Max Anders

#Distance #God Love #Barriers

A healthy relationship with God is built on the internal changes He brings about through Christ.
-- Max Anders

#Healthy #Christ #Relationship With God

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life.
-- Max Anders

#Challenges #Battle #Trust In God

Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems.
-- Max Anders

#Lying #World #Worship

God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Doe #Currents

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.
-- Max Anders

#Reading #Hearing

Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.
-- Max Anders

#Issues #Grace #Delight

To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person.
-- Max Anders

#Christian #Lying #People

Persistence in prayer brings results that casual prayer does not.
-- Max Anders

#Prayer #Persistence #Doe

The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations.
-- Max Anders

#Christian #Gratitude #Motivation

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.
-- Max Anders

#Christian #Liberty #Defense

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.
-- Max Anders

#Community #Duty

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.
-- Max Anders

#Kindness #Spring #Self

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive.
-- Max Anders

#Government #People #Judging

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.
-- Max Anders

#Opportunity #God's Faithfulness #Faithfulness

An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.
-- Max Anders

#Worship #Capacity #Rejoice

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues.
-- Max Anders

#Fundamentals #Virtue

In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.
-- Max Anders

#Rocks #World #Constant

Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Father #Passion

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.
-- Max Anders

#Giving #Bills #Should

God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.
-- Max Anders

#Pain #People #Heartache

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #People #Comfort

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.
-- Max Anders

#Offering #People #Wealth

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.
-- Max Anders

#People #Can Do

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.
-- Max Anders

#Past #Order #Discipline

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.
-- Max Anders

#People #Limits #Related

The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.
-- Max Anders

#Agony #Rebellion #Grows

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.
-- Max Anders

#Blessed #Giving #Persons

Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him.
-- Max Anders

#Heart #People #And Love

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.
-- Max Anders

#Holiness #Commandments

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.
-- Max Anders

#Commitment #Assuming #Faithfulness

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Faithful #Obedience

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.
-- Max Anders

#Attitude #Giving #Wells

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.
-- Max Anders

#Behavior #Giver #Demonstrating

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder.
-- Max Anders

#Giving #Firsts #Lord

Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Adversity #Land

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.
-- Max Anders

#Israel #Law #Humanity

Even the wisest people learn little from their successes; God warns His people against allowing their victories (which He will grant) to lead them into pride and spiritual indifference. Instead, they should pay close attention to God's Word.
-- Max Anders

#Spiritual #Pride #People

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.
-- Max Anders

#Adversity #Israel #Parent

Although God's people find many successes in the world, they must not fall prey to a spirit of pride. We succeed not because of our moral superiority but because of the faithfulness of our divine intercessor and because of the great mercy of God.
-- Max Anders

#Fall #Pride #Mercy Of God

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him.
-- Max Anders

#Israel #Choices #Desire

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs.
-- Max Anders

#Lying #Blessing #Israel

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction.
-- Max Anders

#Teaching #Ties #Painful

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities.
-- Max Anders

#Live Life #Israel #Different

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.
-- Max Anders

#People #Generosity #Asks

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.
-- Max Anders

#People #Rebellious #Pleasant

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.
-- Max Anders

#People #Doe #Needs