Quotes by Pastors

If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him
Sunday Adelaja
Every Nigerian must begin to raise their voice against our societal failures and call them as such at every juncture. In this way we could all bring about a modern, progressive and civilized society.
Sunday Adelaja
God sometimes allows problem to come into our lives to encourage us to make a step forward
Sunday Adelaja
There are benefits in confrontation. Even though we don’t like it most of the time, but people who obey this demand of life, live in peace better than the others. They avoid conflict and fights, better than others. They are able to identify their friends and enemies faster than others.
Sunday Adelaja
Deception starts from the pulpit
Sunday Adelaja
God will always turn trials, national and personal into the manifestation of His glory
Sunday Adelaja
I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.
Craig Groeschel
We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.
Craig Groeschel
We stand the risk of regression, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
But despite the fact that life is full of risk, yet without taking risk, we stand a greater risk.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced
Sunday Adelaja
When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.
Max Lucado
Kingdom involves a king and his influence over a domain
Sunday Adelaja
The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave.
Sunday Adelaja
Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.
Craig Groeschel
Mankind Needs To Fit Into God’s Agenda So As To Fulfill Purpose
Sunday Adelaja
When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.
Gary Rohrmayer
Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
Eric Ludy
Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.
Sunday Adelaja
We become weirder parents when we fall more and more in love with Christ.
Craig Groeschel
True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.
Timothy J. Keller
Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied
Sunday Adelaja
In God's economy, you may even harvest a crop in places where you didn't plant seed. When you're generous, you will be blessed, whether it comes to you materially, spiritually, emotionally, relationally, or some other way. God obviously cares much more about what happens in our hearts than what happens in our bank accounts, more about our attitudes than our credit scores. Giving generously changes you. It frees you up, undermines the power that money and possessions can have over you, and it makes you more like Him.
Craig Groeschel
If God is for you, nothing can stand against you
Sunday Adelaja
When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you do. The reason why you care and others don't could be because God has aimed it directly at you.
Craig Groeschel
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
Craig Groeschel
Only the favor of God can help us find fulfillment as we reveal Jesus Christ to this world.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.
Sunday Adelaja
For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
Sunday Adelaja
The most frustrating thing about our doctrine in the modern church is that the unbelievers who have never been to church, the agnostics, those who are out rightly atheist, don’t have to fight with whether they are supposed to dominate the earth or not, they just go ahead and do it
Sunday Adelaja
When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.
Sunday Adelaja
Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
For example, the citizens will live out the value of diligence in their enterprises. They will live out the value of prudence in their finances. They will live out the value of industry in the economy. They will live out the value of love in their neighbourhood. They will live out the value of dignity of labour in the market place, etc. All these will go a long way into propelling both the economy and political life of a nation to the greatest height possible.
Sunday Adelaja
If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
Craig Groeschel
You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
Craig Groeschel
Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.
A.W. Tozer
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
Sunday Adelaja
I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.
Craig Groeschel
Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
Sunday Adelaja
We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.
Sunday Adelaja
If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
Sunday Adelaja
To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
Sunday Adelaja
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
Sunday Adelaja
Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.
Sunday Adelaja
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
Craig Groeschel
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
Sunday Adelaja
Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world
Sunday Adelaja
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy
Sunday Adelaja
I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work
Sunday Adelaja
It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.
Craig Groeschel