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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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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’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

“Think about this: Most Americans consider the president of the United States to be the highest office of secular leadership imaginable. But how many Americans can name even twenty or thirty of the forty-four men who have held that office? When was the last time you heard someone mention Chester A. Arthur or William Henry Harrison?”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“Of course, the very genre of the crime novel or movie is rooted in the moral reality that right and wrong actually exist. It is for this reason that the crime novel and similar kinds of literature and entertainment only make sense in a civilization shaped by the Christian worldview.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: The Explosive Power of Jesus’ Parables

“The Bible is our only sufficient source and unerring rule of faith, and the Christian reflex to turn to the Bible is always right. The Bible is without error, totally trustworthy, and true. It is the verbally inspired Word of God. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. When we read the New Testament, we find the faith handed down from Christ to the apostles, those who were taught by Christ himself. Any form of belief that does not agree with the teaching of Christ to the apostles is false—a religion that cannot save.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Apostles' Creed: Discovering Authentic Christianity in an Age of Counterfeits

“Without conviction, nothing really matters, and nothing of significance is passed on.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

“A wonderful mystery surrounds this passage as Jesus revealed an order of authority in the Trinity. The order of authority in no way postulates a hierarchy of divinity and power within the Trinity. Each member of the Trinity is consubstantial, equal in divinity and power, very God of very God. The Bible, however, also presents us with the mystery of the triune God, a glorious mystery in which all in Christ will glory forever and ever. In these verses from John, Jesus revealed that the Spirit will come and not bear witness of himself, but of Christ.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Apostles' Creed: Discovering Authentic Christianity in an Age of Counterfeits

“Organizations thrive when leaders make the right decisions, and they fail when leaders make the wrong ones. What is often less obvious is the fact that organizations can suffer worse when leaders refuse to make any decision at all. Indecisiveness is one of history’s greatest leadership killers.”
― R. Albert Mohler Jr., The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters