Dan DeHaan > Quotes

“The Christian life is Christ living through a man, not a man trying to be Christ.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“If we were to take a stick and put it into a glass of water, it would seem to be crooked. Why? Because we look at it through two mediums—air and water. It is the same with our understanding of God. His various characteristics, such as His justice, seem crooked to us. The wicked seem to prosper and the righteous suffer. It seems that unfair events take place all the time. The problem is not with God but with us. We view God’s proceedings through a double medium of flesh and spirit. Therefore, it is not that God’s character is bent, it is that man is not competent to judge.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“We cannot work up what God alone can give.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“God makes clear in His Word that He does not anoint gifts or talents, but men. God is looking for men who know Him well, fear apathy supremely, and hate sin immensely. God is looking for leaders.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“Men can laugh God out of schools, out of books, and even out of their lives, but man cannot laugh Him out of his death.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“It is a wonderful thing to see a person with the power of God in his life. He says, “Thank you,” for things we would not consider even mentioning. He gets excited over little things as well as big things, knowing that all things are given to him by God. He accepts what God gives him with open hands, and he leaves his hands open in case God would desire to take it away.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“an atheist cannot find God for the same reason that a thief cannot find a policeman. He is not truly interested in finding Him.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“A person who is selfish has little capacity to love.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“Christians believe in one big, bold miracle—God. As a result, everything else fits into place. The rest of the world denies God, the Creator, and needs a miracle to explain everything created.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“Jesus did not come to make bad men good, but to make dead men live.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“A pastor visited a family whose son had been killed in an automobile accident. He heard the mother lash out at him, “Where was your God when my boy was killed?” He quietly responded, “The same place He was when His Son was killed.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“Whatever a person worships will determine the purpose he has in life.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know

“If a Christian fails to conform to the pattern of the Bible, it is not because he lacks rules; it is because he lacks love.”
― Dan DeHaan, The God You Can Know