An Infinite Journey Quotes

“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could be saved, and yet living no differently than an unbeliever day after day. In their lives there would be no hunger and thirst for righteousness, no patterns of obedience, little or no prayer or Bible reading, spotty church attendance, coupled with a love for the world, and a worldly mindset hostile to the Christian faith. Yet, because these people had “prayed the sinner’s prayer” or gone forward at a Billy Graham rally, or “asked Jesus into their hearts” at a youth camp, they were supposedly Christians. This shallow idea of conversion was coupled with the biblical concept of “once saved, always saved,” and a poisonous concoction resulted. Once that concoction was downed, the person became seriously ill with spiritual self-deception. The end of that road is hell. If anything gives you complacent comfort in a sinful lifestyle, it is a devilish component of the problem.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Tiny threads of time are the warp and woof of God’s redemptive tapestry: a series of todays, used well or poorly. God has ordained that the physical universe be composed of atoms, so also has God ordained that history be composed of moments. Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent. At death, our window of opportunity will be closed, our time on earth finished. We can no longer store up treasure in heaven. We can no longer lead people to Christ. We can no longer suffer gladly for Christ. The time for all these things will be past. The call to every Christian is to make the most of this short segment of time, to make every day count for eternity.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“and no member is so hard to control. Therefore, a certain sign of Christian maturity is”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“There will never be a time on this earth that we will graduate from the careful study of the gospel, or from needing to believe its message.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Scripture stands over all private experiences and interprets them.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Christ ministers his life, love, and presence by means of his words (v. 7), the Scripture.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Life in this world is dynamic, and we are not going to stay the same, no matter what. We are either going to be increasingly transformed into Christlikeness, or we are going to be increasingly conformed to the world’s corrupted image.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“We have been trained toward impatience by our lightning-quick information age.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“we dabble in sin, the Lord has the right to discipline us for it immediately,”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“The central act of the Holy Spirit in sanctification is to lead the Christian into battle against sin:”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“No enemy is powerful enough to snatch Christ’s sheep from God’s omnipotent hand”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“There is nothing we can do to improve our standing in his eyes, for Christ’s perfect righteousness is already ours by faith.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“We don’t perfectly understand how much God does for us every day to keep us in the faith—to”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Sanctification is growth into Christlikeness in all areas of life.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Therefore, sanctification is an infinite journey, because only the infinite power of God can complete it. And only the infinitely powerful priestly ministry of Christ at the right hand of God can keep us from all spiritual harm and enable us to make a single step forward in our sanctification.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“We should fear lying on our deathbed and groaning, knowing that we let some lust or sin habit rob us of the best years of our lives on earth.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“Personal and world history is an accumulation of todays, and how they were spent.”
― Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“In the external journey of Kingdom advance, God guides us by giving us insight into the best, most fruitful paths of service for his glory.”
― Dr. Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“But as we labor, struggle, fail, weep, succeed, exult, fall, and rise again in the pursuit of daily holiness, we must keep ever before us these immutable truths: “I am a regenerate, justified believer in Jesus Christ, seen in him as perfectly righteous, adopted into God’s family, completely at peace with God, and in that state I will continue until I am finally vindicated on Judgment Day.”
― Dr. Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness

“We need to take on sin patterns and defeat them by the power of the Spirit. We need to make ambitious resolutions in Scripture memorization and prayer and character development, and see those goals met to the glory of God. We should yearn to reach the end of our days here on earth knowing that we never rested in our efforts to grow to maximum Christlikeness. We should fear lying on our deathbed and groaning, knowing that we let some lust or sin habit rob us of the best years of our lives on earth. What was said of Captain James Cook concerning an immeasurable secular journey must also be said of us concerning our infinite spiritual journey in sanctification: “We left nothing unattempted.”
― Dr. Andrew M. Davis, An Infinite Journey: Growing toward Christlikeness