Warren W. Wiersbe Quotes

If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.

Most Christians are being crucified on a cross between two thieves: Yesterday's regret and tomorrow's worries.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.

Nothing paralyzes our lives like the attitude that things can never change. We need to remind ourselves that God can change things. Outlook determines outcome. If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Trusting God means thinking and acting according to God's word in spite of circumstances, feelings, or consequences.

In our universe there is God and there are people and things. We were made so that we should worship God, love people and use things. However if we worship ourselves, we will ignore God, start loving things and begin to use people.

When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again

God doesn't always change the circumstances, but He can change us to meet the circumstances. That's what it means to live by faith.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.

You are a Christian because somebody cared. Now it's your turn.

People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not

People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love.

The way we behave toward people indicates what we really believe about God.

The ability to calm your soul and wait before God is one of the most difficult things in the Christian life. Our old nature is restless... the world around us is frantically in a hurry. But a restless heart usually leads to a reckless life.

Meekness is power under control.

Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.

The Christian life is a pilgrimage from earth to heaven, and our task is to take as many as possible with us as we make this journey.

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.