Top 160 Adrian Rogers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I would rather stand alone in the light of truth than in the crowd filled with error.”

— Adrian Rogers

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2. “You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.”

— Adrian Rogers

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3. “If Satan can’t make you bad, he’ll make you busy.”

— Adrian Rogers

4. “Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.”

— Adrian Rogers

5. “I’m a nobody telling everybody about Somebody who can save anybody.”

— Adrian Rogers

6. “A faith that hasn’t been tested can’t be trusted.”

— Adrian Rogers

7. “It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.”

— Adrian Rogers

8. “Give God what’s right, not what’s left!”

— Adrian Rogers

9. “Anything you love more, fear more, serve more, or value more than God is your idol.”

— Adrian Rogers

10. “Death is just a comma to a Christian, not a period.”

— Adrian Rogers

11. “God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.”

— Adrian Rogers

12. “We’re to love people and use things, not love things and use people.”

— Adrian Rogers

13. “The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.”

— Adrian Rogers

14. “To be almost saved is to be totally lost.”

— Adrian Rogers

15. “Sin is not just breaking God’s laws; it is breaking His heart.”

— Adrian Rogers

16. “Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?”

— Adrian Rogers

17. “We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.”

— Adrian Rogers

18. “Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.”

— Adrian Rogers

19. “Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!”

— Adrian Rogers

20. “The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.”

— Adrian Rogers

21. “Your character is the harvest of your habits.”

— Adrian Rogers

22. “A scar is a wound that has healed. We need to bring our wounds to Jesus, let Him heal them, and use our scars for Jesus. Our scars may be our greatest ministry.”

— Adrian Rogers

23. “You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.”

— Adrian Rogers

24. “Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.”

— Adrian Rogers

25. “It doesn’t matter if you please the whole world and don’t please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn’t matter whom you displease.”

— Adrian Rogers

26. “God doesn’t need us to give Him our money. He owns everything. Tithing is God’s way to grow Christians.”

— Adrian Rogers

27. “God is never in a hurry, but God is never late.”

— Adrian Rogers

28. “The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!”

— Adrian Rogers

29. “Grace is God’s acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.”

— Adrian Rogers

30. “You cannot obey God without your obedience spilling out in a blessing to all those around you.”

— Adrian Rogers

31. “The weakest ink is better than the best memory. Study with pen in hand.”

— Adrian Rogers

32. “There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.”

— Adrian Rogers

33. “Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.”

— Adrian Rogers

34. “Discipline says, ‘I need to.’ Duty says, ‘I ought to.’ Devotion says, ‘I want to.’”

— Adrian Rogers

35. “Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.”

— Adrian Rogers

36. “Jesus did not bathe this planet with his blood to have you serve the world, the flesh, and the devil. He died to make you holy. You are not your own. First Corinthians 6:20 says ‘For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.’”

— Adrian Rogers

37. “And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is “His story,” the story of God.”

— Adrian Rogers

38. “Study the Bible to know about God. Obey the Bible to really know God.”

— Adrian Rogers

39. “Our great need is to discover that Jesus is all we need.”

— Adrian Rogers

40. “Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!”

— Adrian Rogers

41. “It is more important to influence people than to impress them.”

— Adrian Rogers

42. “If I put things between me and Christ, it is idolatry. If I put Christ between me and things, it is victory!”

— Adrian Rogers

43. “It’s about time we stopped buying things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”

— Adrian Rogers

44. “Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.”

— Adrian Rogers

45. “Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.”

— Adrian Rogers

46. “I may be a nut, but I’m fastened to a good bolt, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Adrian Rogers

47. “You can’t really live until you are no longer afraid to die.”

— Adrian Rogers

48. “Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.”

— Adrian Rogers

49. “Let go of this world and take hold of God with both hands.”

— Adrian Rogers

50. “A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.”

— Adrian Rogers