Top 35 Sam Storms Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.”

— Sam Storms

2. “The ultimate goal of theology isn’t knowledge, but worship.”

— Sam Storms

3. “God created you for the first and greatest commandment, to be a lover of God.”

— Sam Storms

4. “God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.”

— Sam Storms

5. “God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn’t simply think about Himself or talk to Himself. He enjoys Himself! He celebrates with infinite and eternal intensity the beauty of who He is as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. And we’ve been created to join the party!”

— Sam Storms

6. “I simply define glory as the beauty of God unveiled. Glory is the resplendent radiance of His power and His personality. Glory is all of God that makes God God, and shows Him to be worthy of our praise and our boasting and our trust and our hope and our confidence and our joy.”

— Sam Storms

7. “Where there is no fruit, there may be no root.”

— Sam Storms

8. “Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.”

— Sam Storms

9. “Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.”

— Sam Storms

10. “God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.”

— Sam Storms

11. “Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.”

— Sam Storms

12. “Enjoy the joy of being enjoyed by God.”

— Sam Storms

13. “Whatever and whenever God blesses, Satan curses. What God creates, Satan counterfeits.”

— Sam Storms

14. “Adultery is an obvious violation of the rights of another. You are stealing what doesn’t belong to you.”

— Sam Storms

15. “The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.”

— Sam Storms

16. “Worship is not about my enjoyment. It is about my enjoyment of God. It is not about my pleasure or my delight or my satisfaction. It is about my pleasure, delight, and satisfaction in God. Worship is not simply about glorifying God. It is about glorifying God by enjoying Him forever.”

— Sam Storms

17. “The focus of Satan’s efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.”

— Sam Storms

18. “Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we’re ruined for anything else!”

— Sam Storms

19. “The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.”

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20. “The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn’t in trying harder but in enjoying more. I’m not saying you can change without trying. I’m saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.”

— Sam Storms

21. “Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!”

— Sam Storms

22. “Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ’s beauty.”

— Sam Storms

23. “Our giving is but a reflex of God’s giving.”

— Sam Storms

24. “If your reason for worshipping God is merely from a sense of moral duty, God would rather you not worship Him at all. To say that God is pleased with worship that lacks passion is to say God endorses hypocrisy.”

— Sam Storms

25. “The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.”

— Sam Storms

26. “God’s creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.”

— Sam Storms

27. “Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly refreshment is at best a sipping from intermittent springs, but God is the ocean!”

— Sam Storms

28. “The single most important principle I ever discovered is this: the goal or purpose of the Christian is precisely the pursuit of happiness – in God. The reason for this is that there is no greater way to glorify God than to find in Him the happiness that my soul so desperately craves.”

— Sam Storms

29. “To say that worship is either about glorifying God or finding personal satisfaction is to put asunder what God has joined together. His glory and your gladness are not separate tracks moving in opposite directions. Rather His glory is in your gladness in Him.”

— Sam Storms

30. “You need never fear feeling too good about God.”

— Sam Storms

31. “True love is something seen and known by others.”

— Sam Storms

32. “Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly.”

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33. “Where is the person whose heart is so passionately in love with the promised glory of heaven that he feels like an exile and a sojourner on the earth? Where.”

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34. “You may be at paradise or in prison, at the movies or in Chicago, but you are always and unchangeably in Christ.”

— Sam Storms

35. “The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God’s grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.”

— Sam Storms

36. “Of what good is it, in the ultimate sense, to shower someone with affection in the absence of a robust confidence in Jesus and the courage to proclaim him as the sinner’s only hope?”

— Sam Storms

37. “One way of judging the quality of theologies,” he explains, “is to see what sort of devotion they produce.”32.”

— Sam Storms