Brian Williams > Brian's Quotes

“The only way to understand yourself or your life is to start with God. And right at the very beginning the Bible takes us there. If you are not clear about this, you will go wrong everywhere else.”
― Martin Lloyd Jones

“We see now that the whole cause of our trouble is that people do not base their lives upon God. They have set themselves up as gods, and the gods are fighting one another, and life has been chaos”
― Martin Lloyd Jones

“The Old Testament records the preparation for the coming of the Messiah. The Gospels record the coming of the Messiah, Jesus Christ our Lord. The book of Acts records the propagation of the gospel (the good news) concerning Jesus Christ. The Epistles (letters) explain the gospel and its implications for our lives. The book of Revelation anticipates and describes the second coming of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His eternal kingdom. From beginning to end, the Bible glorifies Jesus Christ and centers on Him. Its Christ-centeredness is one of its wonderful features.”
― Josh McDowell

“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“Every once in a while in my discussions someone asks how I can believe in the Trinity. My answer is always the same. I would still be an agnostic if there was no Trinity, because there would be no answers. Without the high order of personal unity and diversity as given in the Trinity, there are no answers.”
― Francis A. Schaeffer, The Francis A. Schaeffer Trilogy: Three Essential Books in One Volume

“You are equipped to change atmospheres. The first one is your own. Rise up. Speak to your mountains and they will fall. Partner with Heaven and see it come to your rescue.”
― Jenelle Dancel, Favor Walks With Us

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and live in an imaginary world, rather than face the facts and alter our theories to suit them. Many lengths are gone to, to preserve our theories, especially in the spiritual realm--but there comes a time when we all have to realize that fact is fact and theory is only theory and must be dealt with accordingly.”
― Raphael Gasson, Challenging Counterfeit: A Former Medium Exposes Spiritualism

“Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).”
― Shawntel Jefferson, Prayers that Ignite Change for Kids

“Many Christians are "devoured" by worldly interests that distract them from spiritual service to God.”
― Victor H Ernest, I talked with spirits

“The word "Christian" means 'like Christ'! We are to reflect His beauty, do His deeds, think His thoughts, and speak His words. This is what it means to become conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Do we really understand to what we are committing ourselves when we sing the song 'To be like Jesus...All I ask, to be like Him'? Actually, we are asking for everything that Jesus is: His character, His work, His mind, His word, His beauty, power, wisdom, and will. This is a big order, but it is our destiny! This is what life is all about. To miss this is to miss everything. To gain this is to possess the answer to life's biggest question. Christ is the answer! God planned it so. The will of God the Father for you centers in His Son!”
― Robert C. Frost, Aglow With the Spirit

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“In attitude, faith is "restful", but in action, it is "powerful". Praying in tongues has both a restful and powerful effect upon our lives because it is an active expression of our faith.”
― Robert C. Frost, Aglow With the Spirit

“If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“The stories in this book link an ancient story with the children's stories. Rather than medical case reports based on certainty of what scientists currently understand, they are simply an attempt to be faithful to what I have heard. In this sense, they continue Jesus' commissioned work of revealing that there is a realm that we cannot yet fully understand. The greatest gift in my life has been in linking the ancient story and the children's stories to my own...As I sit by the beds of these children, I have seen God's love made manifest in this descending way. I have seen Jesus Christ come again and again and again to bring peace and to link the children's stories with His own.”
― Diane M. Komp - Pediatric Oncologist

“God created the world to exhibit the fullness of His glory in the God-centered joy of His people.”
― John Piper, God's Passion for His Glory: Living the Vision of Jonathan Edwards

“God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.”
― Sam Storms , Pleasures Evermore: The Life-Changing Power of Enjoying God

“Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.”
― Paul Ellis

“Peter warming himself at the world’s fire and trying to seem unconcerned is an example of the kind of halfway discipleship too many are satisfied with. The martyr leaping up in the arena, demanding to be thrown to the lions along with his suffering brethren, is an example of the only kind of dedication that God approves”
― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God

“One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.”
― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God

“For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.”
― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God

“They who believe the Christian revelation know that the universe is a creation. It is not eternal, since it had a beginning, and it is not the result of a succession of happy coincidences whereby an all but infinite number of matching parts accidentally found each other, fell into place and began to hum.”
― A.W. Tozer, Man: The Dwelling Place of God

“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
― C.S. Lewis

“In heaven, believers in Jesus Christ will never cry again. In hell, unbelievers will never stop crying. What more motivation do we need to share Christ with the lost?”
― Brian Williams

“There will always be people who will judge a situation, even without looking at the evidence, in order to avoid having to believe in the reality and power of God. So I told the press on no uncertain terms, ‘Some of you guys don’t want to believe God healed me. Well, He really did heal me, and if you got a problem with that, don’t ask me no more questions’.”
― Reggie White