Life is a series of recoveries. Mark Lowry More Quotes by Mark Lowry More Quotes From Mark Lowry Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other! Mark Lowry christian time love God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything. Mark Lowry peanut-butter grace years We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars. Mark Lowry trophies helping people I do one sit up a day. I get up in the morning, that's the first half. I lay down at night, that's the second half. Mark Lowry half morning night It's easier for our brains to have a list of rules and say, "If we keep these rules, we're in, and if we don't keep these rules, we're out." The problem with grace is that it doesn't play by the rules. It covers sin, and it washes away shame. It releases you from self-hatred. You then realize, through grace in Jesus, and believing in Jesus, and agreeing with Jesus, that you evidently were worth dying for. Mark Lowry grace believe jesus When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70! Mark Lowry fractions age thinking The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. Mark Lowry figs self forgotten The things you're crying about today, you might be laughing about in ten years ... and then again ... maybe not. Mark Lowry might laughing years It's not a great song unless it makes your DNA remember Eden and your spirit long for Home. Mark Lowry dna home song I hate puns. And, I'm tired of pardoning them. Mark Lowry pun tired hate How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other! Mark Lowry hate-you sin hate Our preachers weren't always right, but they were never in doubt. Mark Lowry preacher doubt How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for." You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide. Mark Lowry rude choices dying God is so much nicer than you can imagine. I know "nice" is an odd word, but He loved you enough to die for you. And if you think of a great parent, then you got a glimpse of God, a great father, a great mother, and how they look at their children. How you, if you're a parent, you look at your children. Mark Lowry mother father children If you're normal, if you're healthy, you look at your children and you see your image, and you want the best for them. And you applaud when they take their first steps. And you are their biggest fan when they first sing in church. And, you know, that's a normal healthy person, father, parent, I believe. Well, multiply that by infinity and that's how God sees you. So I say that's pretty "nice." Mark Lowry nice father children I thought, you know, I can sit at home in my La-Z-Boy, on Facebook, and reach more people than I can on a tour. Because I reach 30,000 to 40,000 people for every Facebook post, some even reach 50,000 to 60,000. And I thought, if it's about reaching people, and not about making money, why bother touring? Mark Lowry making-money home people I think the Pentecostals have done a great thing for the Kingdom of God. I think Baptists have done a great thing, oh, Protestants, I should say, have done a great thing for the Kingdom of God, so whenever Satan tries to divide, it's just really God multiplying. Mark Lowry done trying thinking
