Quotes by Pastors

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.
Rick Warren
I have long since chosen him for my only good, my all; my pleasure, my happiness in this world as in the world to come... -Susanna Wesley
Arnold A. Dallimore
Nicky Cruz: You come near me and I'll kill you!David Wilkerson: Yeah, you could do that. You could cut me up into a thousand pieces and lay them in the street, and every piece will still love you.
David Wilkerson
There are many people in the world who are running after vanity. They are striving after things that the Lord is not building.
Sunday Adelaja
The standards of this new time are forcing us to put our lives in order before God
Sunday Adelaja
God created us to rule, to lead and use all His riches to establish His order
Sunday Adelaja
If you do not sow into God, you cannot expect a financial harvest.
Sunday Adelaja
God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies.
Sunday Adelaja
A large salary does not make a person rich, it is a diligent hand that does.
Sunday Adelaja
Only God is not limited in anything.
Sunday Adelaja
Your riches cannot save you from fornication.
Sunday Adelaja
No matter how rich a person is, his resources are limited.
Sunday Adelaja
Money is not the perfect source of satisfaction. This source is God.
Sunday Adelaja
God’s riches are sufficient to bless all humanity.
Sunday Adelaja
Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.
Walter Chantry
Miracle centered gospel has reduced Christian significance and essence.
Sunday Adelaja
Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.
Jason E. Royle
God's word is alive, so full of spiritual truth and wisdom that even a single passage can be digested for a lifetime
Charles F. Stanley
God’s wisdom makes Christians different from other people.
Sunday Adelaja
By confessing Jesus Christ as Lord, we give to Him all the rights to our lives.
Sunday Adelaja
The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights
Sunday Adelaja
I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, it's part of being Americans. Part of being evangelicals too is that we're highly activist. We are always diving in, willing to solve problems, and again there's a lot good there. But we also need the theological balance that the Kingdom is not ours to bring or ours to create.
Kevin DeYoung
I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.
Eugene H. Peterson
A successful story always offers its audience more than a simple resolution of events. A story offers a dramatic affirmation of human needs that are acted out to resolution and fulfillment. Even when that resolution and fulfillment are dark, the journey can still be vivid, potent and illuminating.
Bill Johnson
Due to our act of Personal Irresponsibility, illegal businesses are set-up, our neighbourhoods are not secured and the economy directly and indirectly takes a big hit. The government alone cannot be blamed for this, because this is our neighbourhood and if we cannot take care of our immediate surroundings, then we are clearly not carrying out our responsibilities and we don’t have any business blaming someone else.
Sunday Adelaja
There is only one limitation to our progress and that is our lack of information.
Sunday Adelaja
...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.
Mark Batterson
Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.
Rick Warren
To Confess Is To Surrender
Sunday Adelaja
The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
A.W. Tozer
You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans.
Rick Warren
Every worker should know that by working, he is releasing the nature of God in him. He is becoming creative just like God is creative.
Sunday Adelaja
If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him
Sunday Adelaja
To possess something and not know its value is torturous.
Sunday Adelaja
Money comes to those who know what to do with it.
Sunday Adelaja
To know God`s laws and abide by them is a privilege.
Sunday Adelaja
The more you know, the more you can do. The more you can do the bigger you become
Sunday Adelaja
What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
Craig Groeschel
The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it
Sunday Adelaja
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
Craig Groeschel
We don't even know how to rest anymore.
Craig Groeschel
War is the science of destruction.
John S.C. Abbott
God may allow His servant to succeed when He has disciplined him to a point where he does not need to succeed to be happy. The man who is elated by success and is cast down by failure is still a carnal man. At best his fruit will have a worm in it.
A.W. Tozer
Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding and eternity looms ahead?
Raymond L. Cox
Fear imprisons faith liberates fear paralyzes faith empowers fear disheartens faith encourages fear sickens faith heals fear makes useless faith makes serviceable.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world-making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Liberty is always dangerous but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
F.B. Meyer
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
Stephen Crotts
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
Alan Redpath
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
A.W. Tozer
Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives
A.W. Tozer
Men of God are always men of prayer.
Henry T. Mahan
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless remain that way. Say nothing and listen as heaven whispers "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
Max Lucado
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Nothing in human life least of all in religion is ever right until it is beautiful.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
F.B. Meyer
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them correct them bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
Stephen Crotts