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Sam Storms QUOTES

Sam Storms QUOTES

1 " ...the Spirit comes to us as a fire, either to be fanned into full flame and given the freedom to accomplish his will or to be doused and extinguished by the water of human fear, control, and flawed theology. "

― Sam Storms , Practicing the Power: Welcoming the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Your Life

2 " We say we want revival . . . but on our terms. We don’t pray this way, but this is what our hearts are saying to God: “Come Holy Spirit . . . but only if you promise in advance to do things the way we have always done them in our church.” “Come Holy Spirit . . . but only if I have some sort of prior guarantee that when you show up you won’t embarrass me.” “Come Holy Spirit . . . but only if your work of revival is one that I can still control, one that preserves intact the traditions with which I am comfortable.” “Come Holy Spirit . . . but only if your work of revival is neat and tidy and dignified and understandable and above all else socially acceptable.” “Come Holy Spirit . . . but only if you plan to change others; only if you make them to be like me; only if you convict their hearts so they will live and dress and talk like I do.” “Come Holy Spirit . . . but only if you let us preserve our distinctives and retain our differences from others whom we find offensive. "

― Sam Storms , Practicing the Power: Welcoming the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Your Life

3 " ...we must be careful to avoid the error of reductionism, as if the whole of the Spirit’s ministry can be reduced to Christology, as if the Spirit does nothing but glorify Christ. It’s the mistake of arguing that the primary purpose of the Spirit’s coming is the sole purpose of his coming. The principal aim of the Spirit in what he does is to awaken us to the glory, splendor, and centrality of the work of Christ Jesus. But this does not mean that it is less than the Spirit at work when he awakens us also to his own glory and power and abiding presence. "

― Sam Storms , Practicing the Power: Welcoming the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Your Life

4 " 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. "

― Sam Storms , Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God

5 " Of what good is it, in the ultimate sense, to shower someone with affection in the absence of a robust confidence in Jesus and the courage to proclaim him as the sinner's only hope? "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

6 " The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good. "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

7 " True love is something seen and known by others. "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

8 " The object of faith always determines its quality and worth. "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

9 " When the world tells us, as it does, that everyone has a right to a life that is easy, comfortable, and relatively pain-free, a life that enables us to discover, display, and deploy all the strengths that are latent within us, the world twists the truth right out of shape. That was not the quality of life to which Christ’s call led him, nor was it Paul’s calling, nor is it what we are called to in the twenty-first century. For all Christians, the likelihood is rather that as our discipleship continues, God will make us increasingly weakness-conscious and pain-aware, so that we may learn with Paul that when we are conscious of being weak, then—and only then—may we become truly strong in the Lord. And should we want it any other way? "

― Sam Storms , Packer on the Christian Life: Knowing God in Christ, Walking by the Spirit

10 " Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

11 " People can live in other spheres (cf. 2:1-3), but Christians live in Christ. "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

12 " Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

13 " You may be at paradise or in prison, at the movies or in Chicago, but you are always and unchangeably in Christ. "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

14 " Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean! "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

15 " Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean! "

― Sam Storms , The Hope of Glory: 100 Daily Meditations on Colossians

16 " One way of judging the quality of theologies,” he explains, “is to see what sort of devotion they produce.”32 "

― Sam Storms , Packer on the Christian Life: Knowing God in Christ, Walking by the Spirit

17 " He quotes a statement often attributed to Luther (here slightly paraphrased): If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point that the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages is where the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.6 "

― Sam Storms , Packer on the Christian Life: Knowing God in Christ, Walking by the Spirit

18 " There is nothing in the Christian life that is “post” gospel! "

― Sam Storms , A Dozen Things God Did with Your Sin (And Three Things He'll Never Do)

19 " What Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:6 clearly indicates that one’s gift does not always operate at the same level of intensity. Timothy is exhorted to “kindle afresh” his spiritual gift. This would imply that a gift can fluctuate on a sliding scale of relative effectiveness, the latter being in some measure dependent on us. Although a gift is from God, it can be improved upon. We can always learn to use it better, and with greater fruit. "

― Sam Storms , The Beginner's Guide to Spiritual Gifts

20 " I encourage either you or the person who is suffering to read aloud Luke 10:17–20, Ephesians 1:15–23 (esp. v. 21), and Colossians 2:9–15. "

― Sam Storms , Practicing the Power: Welcoming the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in Your Life