Top 60 J. Vernon McGee Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “This is God’s universe and He does things His way. You may have a better way, but you don’t have a universe.”

— J. Vernon McGee

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2. “May God richly bless you, my beloved.”

— J. Vernon McGee

3. “What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.”

— J. Vernon McGee

4. “The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.”

— J. Vernon McGee

5. “We either crucify or crown Jesus by our lives.”

— J. Vernon McGee

6. “Don’t say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He’s not. The thing that’s going to send you to hell is that you’re a sinner and you don’t want to admit it.”

— J. Vernon McGee

7. “There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good.”

— J. Vernon McGee

8. “You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn’t want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.”

— J. Vernon McGee

9. “Being a square keeps you from going around in circles.”

— J. Vernon McGee

10. “I believe in the eternal security of the believer and in the insecurity of the make-believer.”

— J. Vernon McGee

11. “God’s Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.”

— J. Vernon McGee

12. “What is your ambition in life today? Is it to get rich? Is it to make a name for yourself? Is it even to do some wonderful thing for God? Listen to me, beloved. The highest desire that can possess any human heart is a longing to see God.”

— J. Vernon McGee

13. “Law demands – grace gives. Law says “do” – grace says “believe.” Law exacts – grace bestows. Law says “work” – grace says “rest.” Law threatens, pronouncing a curse – grace entreats, pronouncing a blessing. Law says “Do, and thou shalt live” – grace says, “Live, and thou shalt do.” Law condemns the best man – grace saves the worst man.”

— J. Vernon McGee

14. “Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.”

— J. Vernon McGee

15. “The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.”

— J. Vernon McGee

16. “You and I are living in a universe where there is a God, a loving God, a God whose heart goes out in love and yearning over you. But I want to say this to you: if you turn your back on Him He will judge you even though He still loves you. He is the righteous God of this universe.”

— J. Vernon McGee

17. “Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.”

— J. Vernon McGee

18. “An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.”

— J. Vernon McGee

19. “I can fill a church speaking on Revelation and empty it speaking on Romans.”

— J. Vernon McGee

20. “If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.”

— J. Vernon McGee

21. “The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.”

— J. Vernon McGee

22. “There’s a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.”

— J. Vernon McGee

23. “How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God – that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.”

— J. Vernon McGee

24. “Any place you can take Jesus Christ with you is ok to go.”

— J. Vernon McGee

25. “In order to live a life of holiness, we must first receive new life from God – we must be born from above.”

— J. Vernon McGee

26. “Faith is not a leap in the dark. Faith is not a “hope so.” Faith is substance and evidence – substance for a scientific mind, and evidence for a legal mind.”

— J. Vernon McGee

27. “He is preeminent in creation because He is the Creator. He is preeminent in redemption for He is the Redeemer. He is preeminent in the church because He is the One who gave Himself for the church.”

— J. Vernon McGee

28. “Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.”

— J. Vernon McGee

29. “If you learn to trust God when the sun is shining, it is easier to trust Him on the day when there are dark and lowering clouds in the sky and you are in one of life’s storms.”

— J. Vernon McGee

30. “Satan never gets very far from the Bible. And every one of the cults, even Satanism, uses the Bible.”

— J. Vernon McGee

31. “Don’t tell me you’re trusting God until you trust Him with your pocketbook.”

— J. Vernon McGee

32. “Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.”

— J. Vernon McGee

33. “The only place where the gospel is found is in the Word of God. Salvation is a revelation of God, and the Word of God is likened to the rain that comes down from heaven.”

— J. Vernon McGee

34. “There is a brotherhood within the body of believers, and the Lord Jesus Christ is the common denominator. Friendship and fellowship are the legal tender among believers.”

— J. Vernon McGee

35. “Have you ever stopped to think in your own personal life why God permits certain people to cross your path? Do you wish that you had never met certain people? Are there people whom you would call your enemies? Someone may have caused you sorrow, but it is all for His purpose. God has permitted all that for a particular purpose. Learn to recognize the hand of God in your life.”

— J. Vernon McGee

36. “Someday, when in the presence of our Savior, we will thank Him for every burden, every trial, and every heartache.”

— J. Vernon McGee

37. “I wish I could get you to seriously study the Word of God in order that you might see His road map.”

— J. Vernon McGee

38. “It has been said that some people go to church to eye the clothes and others go to close their eyes.”

— J. Vernon McGee

39. “My friend, God loves you today. If you knew how much He loves you, it would break your heart – you would be in tears. Now you can keep from experiencing God’s love, but you cannot.”

— J. Vernon McGee

40. “It is interesting to note that Israel cannot live in her land today and have peace while she continues to reject God. It is not Russia or the Arabs that are giving Israel so much trouble; it is God. Israel is God’s chosen people. He is going to bring them back to their land someday in faith and belief. They are returning to the land today in unbelief, and they do not have peace. This is the evidence of the hand of God in the affairs of the world.”

— J. Vernon McGee

41. “When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.”

— J. Vernon McGee

42. “Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.”

— J. Vernon McGee

43. “When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the truth that they might be saved, they will believe the big lie.”

— J. Vernon McGee

44. “The greatest sin is sinning against love.”

— J. Vernon McGee

45. “If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.”

— J. Vernon McGee

46. “Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk.”

— J. Vernon McGee

47. “If we don’t want a baby, we must take responsibility for our actions before a baby becomes a reality. God has made us capable of having babies, and when one has been conceived, it is His intention for that child to come into the world. The moment the child is conceived, he is a person, and to abort a pregnancy is murder of a human being.”

— J. Vernon McGee

48. “If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ died. He stands at the foot of the cross, just as you stand at the foot of the cross.”

— J. Vernon McGee

49. “Do-gooders – if theyd only do good.”

— J. Vernon McGee

50. “It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.”

— J. Vernon McGee