Quotes from Chuck Smith

God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, has been sent by the Son to indwell you so that you might be empowered to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Such is the marvelous gift that God has freely bestowed upon you and me. We will never receive a better gift. Other gifts may thrill us, delight us, even astonish us. But no other gift will ever supersede this gift - because the gift is God Himself.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

A loving, caring Father who sent His Son to die for our sins. Jesus made it possible for us to enjoy this intimate relationship

The Fiery Furnace The events in this chapter foreshadow the resistance of the Jews to the worship of the Antichrist during the coming great tribulation period.

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

We think of a martyr as one who dies for his faith; however, it is really one whose life is so totally committed to his faith that nothing will dissuade him from it, not even the threat of death. His death does not make him a martyr; it only confirms that he was truly a martyr.

The more you look at your problems, the bigger they get.

Long before Abraham's servant traveled to Mesopotamia, God had appointed Rebekah to be the bride of Isaac. "The angel of the LORD will direct you," Abraham told the servant. "He'll lead you to the one.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

No one will ever be moved to Spirit-led action without faith. One's faith is not genuine unless it moves him or her to action. Faith and works are necessary companions. The faith produces the works, while the works demonstrate the genuineness of the faith.