14 Daniel Fuller Quotes

We understand why in the Bible repentance precedes faith. Before people find their need -- love met in God, they are looking to other things, often money, for satisfaction. So believing in God has to involve a 180-degree turn away (that is, repentance) from the love of money to find contentment and confidence for the future simply in knowing God and depending on His promises.

In biblical thinking, genuine love exists only when good works are done in a context where God rather than the doer gets the credit.

Just because creation gives God great delight, we cannot say that He is worshipping it; rather, He is worshipping Himself as He sees His goodness bringing such blessing to people that they give their heartfelt thanks and praise to Him for the benefits He imparts.

If God did not forgive the Christian who confesses and turns away from sin, God would become unrighteous by holding in contempt Christ's atoning work, whose purpose was to uphold God's glory.

God commands these people, made in His image, to multiply so that they, and thus God's image, will fill the earth.

For human beings self-worship is the worst sin, for God it is the epitome of His righteousness. The Unity of the Bible

We have to learn to commit not only the future but also the past to the Lord.

Genuine faith must go beyond the mere intellectual assent concerning biblical doctrines. People must let the implications of these doctrines radically affect their hearts so that they respond positively to God with the obedience and works of faith.

The most vital concern for each of us is to have a joyful and fulfilled future... Whatever people hope for in the future, that is what they worship, and whatever people worship, that is what they inevitably serve.

How could we enjoy heaven if during our lifetime we had used most of our time, treasure, and talents for ourselves and our select group?

Those who persist in harboring an unforgiving spirit toward others who have wronged them are guilty of not believing God's promise to see to matters Himself.

This, then, is the sense in which people are totally depraved: we have all treated God in the most insulting way by registering again and again a vote of no confidence in His promises.

People who regard themselves as invalids rather than heroes will make excellent missionaries.

I believe that the Holy Spirit is indispensable for an interpreter's reaching a correct interpretation of the text. The Spirit must work in the interpreter's heart so that he or she welcomes the biblical message that one's egotistic, sinful heart otherwise hates with a vengeance.