This ever-growing list of Monty-isms has been provided by Monty's students. If you would like to contribute to this list, please submit your Monty-ism to us at info@vsb.net. Thank you!
- "What you dig out is yours. What I dig out is essentially mine. But what you have dug out for yourself is yours forever, never to be forgotten."
- "Grace is God's measureless provision for our immeasurable need."
- "Satan tempts us to destroy us. God tests us to display us!"
- "What you pursue is what you become. Your goals define you and fashion you." (Matthew 6:21)
- "God never measures a person's life by length. He measures a person's life by its depth."
- "If we get off our 'buts', we could change the world (i.e., BUT I don't know how, BUT I'm too busy, etc.)."
- "Christianity can be like a vaccination--a little can prevent you from getting the real thing."
- "God wastes nothing. All heartaches can be transformed into instruments, blessings, opportunities and things of beauty."
- "What you nourish will flourish. What you neglect will wither." (Gal.6:7-9)
- "Don't miss the privilege of your problems." (Isaiah 30:20-21)
- "What God doesn't provide, you don't need." (2 Cor.9:8)
- "Obedience enlarges my capacity to obey; Disobedience enlarges my capacity to disobey; Willful disobedience enlarges my capacity to fail." (2 Peter 1:5-9)
- "God's work, done in God's way to God's glory and in God's timing, will never lack God's supply." (Phil.4:19)
- "The significance of a man is not what he does; it is what others become because of him." (Phil.4:8-9)
- "Testing does two things: it clarifies vision and confirms motive." (Deut.8:2-3)
- "The vitality of your relationship with God is in direct proportion to your knowledge of Scripture."
- "Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better." (Romans 12:1-2)
- "Obedience moves knowledge from our heads to our hearts. Obedience is the bridge over the 18 inches of real estate from our heads to our heart."
- "To make a small job big, put it off." (2.Cor.6:1-2)
- "There is nothing that has happened to you that God cannot transform and use." (Jeremiah 29:11-13)
- "A decision delayed is often a decision destroyed." (Joshua 24:15)
- "What you share you keep forever. What you don't share you lose." (2Tim.2:1-2)
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