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“If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.”
― Albert Mohler Jr.

“We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality, but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without particular moral justifications that invariably offend; we want good without having to name evil; we want decency without the moral authority to insist upon it; we want moral community without any limitations to personal freedom. In short, we want what we cannot have on the terms that we want it.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Christians need to remember that the sufficiency of Scripture gives us a comprehensive worldview that equips us to wrestle with even the most challenging ethical dilemmas of our time.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong

“As theologian David F. Wells states so powerfully, We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that he is benign, that he will acquiesce as we toy with his reality and co-opt him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Without apology, the Christian leader is a devoted student and a lifelong learner.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“The divorce revolution has done far more damage to marriage than same-sex marriage will ever do.”
― Al Mohler

“The great aim of leadership is to lead followers continually into a deeper and more comprehensive love for what is most real, most true, most right, and most important.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Christians do not hurl the truth like a spear at a sinful world. We are called to live the truth, to teach the truth, to be the truth, and to love our neighbors on the basis of that truth.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, and the Very Meaning of Right and Wrong

“Everyone is in a hurry. The persons whom I lead in worship, among whom I counsel, visit, pray, preach, and teach, want shortcuts. They want me to help them fill in the form that will get them instant credit (in eternity). They are impatient for results. They have adopted the lifestyle of a tourist and only want the high points. . . . The Christian life cannot mature under such conditions and in such ways.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Our spiritual maturity will never exceed our knowledge of the Bible,”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“If our leaders are not passionately driven by the right beliefs, we are headed for disaster. At the same time, if believers cannot lead, we are headed nowhere.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“In this age, telling the truth is tough business and not for the fainthearted.”
― Albert Mohler

“a refusal to make moral judgments is not humility. It is insanity.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Culture Shift: The Battle for the Moral Heart of America

“The idol is a nothing, but it is a dangerous nothing.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Words From the Fire: Hearing the Voice of God in the 10 Commandments

“We have turned to a God that we can use rather than a God we must obey; we have turned to a God who will fulfill our needs rather than to a God before whom we must surrender our rights to ourselves. He is a God for us and for our satisfaction, and we have come to assume that it must be so in the church as well. And so we transform the God of mercy into a God who is at our mercy. We imagine that he is benign, that he will acquiesce as we toy with his reality and co-opt him in the promotion of our ventures and careers.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“This leads to a haunting question. What else does the Bible not know about what it means to be human? If the Bible cannot be trusted to reveal the truth about us in every respect, how can we trust it to reveal our salvation? This points to the greater issue at stake here — the gospel. Vines’s argument does not merely relativize the Bible’s authority, it leaves us without any authoritative revelation of what sin is. And without an authoritative (and clearly understandable) revelation of human sin, we cannot know why we need a savior, or why Jesus Christ died.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Vines’s book makes it seem that the only way to show care for people struggling with homosexuality is to accept their sinfulness. Christians throughout the ages, however, have believed that love requires a tender call to repentance. A life devoid of repentance is a life devoid of Christ. If Christians follow Vines’s attempt to reverse the church’s moral position on homosexuality, their loving call to repent of sin will be silenced, and the grace of Jesus Christ to change people will be obscured.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Managers can do their work by ordering people to do something, but leaders are never satisfied with people taking orders.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Vines fails to understand that in a fallen world the strength of our sinful desires is a demonstration of our guilt, rather than our innocence.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“No one who has truly experienced the transforming and redeeming power of the gospel can think of life without passion.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Gender complementarity is the belief that the Bible’s teachings on gender and gender roles is to be understood in terms of the fact that men and women are equally made in God’s image (status) but different in terms of assignment (roles).”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Every great leader is a great teacher, and the greatest leaders seize every opportunity to teach well.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“We cannot lead in a way that is faithful to Christ and effective for Christ’s people if we are not deeply invested in Christian truth. We cannot faithfully lead if we do not first faithfully believe.”
― Albert Mohler, The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Regardless of what people in other ancient societies may have thought about the inferiority of women, those who embraced Genesis 1 believed that men and women are equal in human dignity because God made male and female in his own image (Gen 1:27). At several points, Vines asserts that whereas those who”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., God and the Gay Christian?: A Response to Matthew Vines

“Character”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“By alluding to Isaiah, Jesus’ answer to the disciples (and through them, the church) reveals that there is both danger and promise in the preaching of the gospel. There is both grace and judgment in the parables, and in all preaching. It comes down to whether or not we truly hear and truly see. If we do, hearing and seeing will be demonstrated in obeying Christ and repenting of our sins and returning to God—the very picture of the saving power of the gospel.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“Placing inerrancy at the outset of doctrinal statements seems to teach that Christian beliefs are of the order of facts. As we have suggested, facts can usually be assimilated into the self without much modification of the self, without a deep existential and moral reordering. Consequently, the Christian is taught that becoming a Christian is about learning the right information rather than submitting to the regeneration of the Holy Spirit.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Five Views on Biblical Inerrancy

“As Drucker explains, the fundamental task of management is “to make people capable of joint performance by giving them common goals, common values, the right structure, and the ongoing training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.” You”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“The Lord's Prayer takes less than twenty seconds to read aloud, but it takes a lifetime to learn.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Prayer That Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer As a Manifesto for Revolution

“But Christianity is not belief in belief. It is belief in a propositional truth: that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and savior of sinners.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Apostles' Creed: Discovering Authentic Christianity in an Age of Counterfeits