Jay Adams famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Godâ€™s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do.
-- Jay Adams

#Self Esteem #Teaching #Views
You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.
-- Jay Adams

#Skateboarding #Quitting
If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness.
-- Jay Adams

#Men #Thinking #People
For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.
-- Jay Adams

#Fun #Home #Years
I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.
-- Jay Adams

#Mistake #Good Times #Certain
When members unite with the church, they should not only make a profession of faith in Christ (that is essential), but in light of 2 Corinthians 10:6 and Hebrews 13:17, etc., they should also agree to submit to the authority and discipline of the church, should they be found delinquent in doctrine or life.
-- Jay Adams

#Light #Discipline #Church
Church membership was so important that Paul and Silas baptized the Philippian jailer into the membership of Christ's church at midnight with Paul's back still bloody from a beating! He did not even wait till morning! Identification with Christ's church is important; without it, one must be treated 'as a heathen and publican.'
-- Jay Adams

#Morning #Waiting #Important
Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.
-- Jay Adams

#Jesus #Heart #Jesus Christ
God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do.
-- Jay Adams

#Self Esteem #Teaching #Views

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
I love hearing my audience breathe.
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.
Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

Jay Adams famous quotes

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