J. Dwight Pentecost > Quotes

“When one submits himself to the Lord to do His will, God begins to unfold step by step that which is His will for His child. Get this cardinal fact in mind: God can speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear, but God cannot speak loud enough to reveal His will to an unwilling soul. Willingness to do God's will is a prerequisite to knowing that will.”
― J. Dwight Pentecost

“God has endowed us with a capacity to love, of necessity there must be within that capacity the ability to manifest anger. If there were no possibility of showing anger there would be no possibility of manifesting love because anger is the response to wounded love. Anger is the rightful response to some wrong or injustice; and if there were no standards of right and of justice, there could be no anger. But because the Bible sets forth standards of right and justice, there will be anger when one beholds violated rights or injustices.”
― J. Dwight Pentecost, Man's Problems - God's Answers

“God's answer to today's persecution of the conservative, evangelical church is not disassociation and distance, but unity, communion, and an ever-growing witness to unbelievers. Rather than trying to figure out how to make the church more like the world so the world will go to church, we should be trying to figure out how to make the church more like Christ so the church will go to the world.”
― J. Dwight Pentecost, Faith That Endures: A Practical Commentary on the Book of Hebrews

“play so important a part in the events of the seventieth week. The bowls (Rev. 16:1-17) evidently come at the close of the period and occupy”
― J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology

“Redemption undertakes the solution of the problem of sin, as reconciliation undertakes the solution of the problem of the sinner, and propitiation undertakes the problem of an offended God…”
― J. Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come: A Study in Biblical Eschatology