Sam Storms Quotes

Tolerate nothing in your life that might diminish your hunger for Gods word. Apply it w vigor & spiritual energy!

The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.

God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus... [One] in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.

Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.

Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.

Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn't belong to you.

The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

Sometimes people base their identity on their gifting. But our identity is in Christ and ultimately has no relation to whatever gift the Spirit may have granted to us.

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

The biblical basis is the numerous biblical texts which describe prophecy as a spiritual gift that should characterize God's people in the age of the New Covenant.

A simple definition of prophecy is that it's when we speak forth in merely human - and thus often fallible - words something that the Holy Spirit spontaneously brings to mind.

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

The New Testament never once warns us that humbly seeking and praying for spiritual gifts will bring anything other than a blessing.

Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!

You need never fear feeling too good about God.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid of internal spiritual substance.

God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.

Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.