Alan de Jager

“If you cannot give God glory for something, you should not do it. If a person is not fully persuaded that an activity is pleasing to God, then it is a sin: "whatsoever is not of faith is sin" (Romans 14:23)”

“People think the Bible is too complicated for the average person to understand. People tend to be wrong. It's too complicated for the unsaved person, yes, it's foolishness to him. But for those who are in Christ, it's a magnificent journey of simplicity. Depth, richness, but simplicity. It's the fact that the natural man can't believe that life with Christ is so simple that cause the great "complexity" argument. Stop, take a breath, and believe that it's as simple as it appears.”

“So many commands in the Bible require obedience without us experiencing any conviction to obey them. That is when our faith is truly tested.”

“I want to commune with Christ and live in His fullness or I don't want anything to do with Christianity. I want all God has to offer.”

“Disclosing one's "deep, dark secrets" makes them no less deep or dark or secret than any other petty flaw.”

“The man who cannot obey God cannot say that he loves or trusts his Master. If God knows best then how dare we interfere with His will?”

“There's a time in every Christian's life that can only be described as a period of walking through a thirsty and dry desert. This is where God teaches every believer the need for faith. God has to strip away every emotion, every feeling, and every physical thing that makes you comfortable serving Him. His voice grows quiet, His Presence lonely, His ear seems deaf, and it will do either one of two things: It will either make you find a comfortable rock and wait for God to show up, or it will create such a hunger and thirst after Him, just Him, that you abandon all the "things" of Christ for Christ alone.”