Adam Ramsey > Quotes

“ourselves. Perhaps for many of us, the greatest indicator of pride in our hearts is not the presence of boasting but the absence of prayer. We often identify pride through really obvious things like bragging, boasting, and name-dropping. But if I want to discover the most accurate measure of self-reliance in my own life, I need look no further than within the mirror of my prayer-life.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“Every Christian, to some degree, is a recovering control freak. It is only when we come to the place of accepting our rightful role as creature rather than Creator, servant rather than Master, child rather than Father, that we find the rest we most long for.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“The gospel means that I’m not all that awesome. But I am loved. And that’s awesome.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“Your weakness, then, is not an inconvenience to avoid. On the contrary, it is the blood-stained doorway that your Saviour opened, that leads you into a life marked by the power of the Spirit and the strength of Almighty God.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“The door of pride looks like a royal promotion, but it leads into a prison cell. The door of humility looks like a restriction, but it opens up into an eternal horizon of freedom.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“The risen Jesus is sovereign over everything. You can follow him with total assurance into anything.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“What if a childlike curiosity and wonder and openness were to mark our living, rather than a settled sense of self-assurance? It may seem counterintuitive, but Christian growth is a gradual downward movement toward the maturity of childlikeness.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“Without wine, there is no joy.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truly, Truly, I Say to You: Meditations on the Words of Jesus from the Gospel of John

“If God is with us, we have nothing to fear. Not even death. How would your life change, right now, if you knew for certain that moment-by-moment, God himself was with you, sustaining you, never abandoning you, regardless of whether you sensed his nearness or not? You’d never be afraid again.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“Here is the power to stop pretending. Jesus is not disillusioned with you, because he never had any illusions about who you ever were in the first place. He knew exactly, precisely, completely who you are and gave his life for you. Not the Instagrammable you; the real you. He knows that you to the depths of your being and commits to loving, disciplining, and sanctifying all the way to glory.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“Do you hate your sin? Do you find yourself turning to Jesus again and again with cries of confession and desires for change? Then take heart, beloved struggler. You are undoubtedly a child of God. The fact that you are fighting sin is the evidence of spiritual life. Dead things don’t fight, only living things do. So press onward into the light of holiness.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“God doesn’t want your strength. Never did. Never will. He wants to give you his.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“You have more spiritual power available to you than you have spiritual enemies coming at you—no matter how dark your present moment.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truth On Fire: Gazing at God Until Your Heart Sings

“The climax of human history is a wedding. The greatest celebration that all of heaven and earth will behold is still ahead of us, when the redeemed people of God - the bride of Christ- are eternally united with him.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truly, Truly, I Say to You: Meditations on the Words of Jesus from the Gospel of John

“In many ways, the rate of change in our world has only accelerated over the past century…The pace at which society is changing - particularly in politically and culturally polarized Western contexts - can feel dizzying. We sense impermanence all around.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truly, Truly, I Say to You: Meditations on the Words of Jesus from the Gospel of John

“That’s why Christians live differently in this world: they know that death does not get the final word.”
― Adam Ramsey, Truly, Truly, I Say to You: Meditations on the Words of Jesus from the Gospel of John