Quotes from Lewis Sperry Chafer

The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God.

His leading is only for those who are already committed to do as He may choose. To such it may be said: "God is able to speak loud enough to make a willing soul hear.

The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

There must be a great national heart-turning, or repentance to God as an immediate preparation for the kingdom as seen in the Old Testament (Deut. 30:1-3; Isa. 24:7; Hos. 3:4, 5; 14:7; Zech. 12:10-13:1; Mal. 3:7). Repentance, therefore, became an imperative part of the message concerning the imminency of the kingdom.

James 1:14, 15: "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

The New Testament reveals the present age as a parenthesis in the prophetic program during which the Church is called out from among the Gentiles, a stranger and pilgrim body, belonging to the kingdom of God, but in no sense identical with the kingdom of heaven.