Quotes by Pastors - Page 11

Loving God is an act
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Loving God and your neighbor cannot exist without the other
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A happy birthday is measured not in the amount one of gifts, but in the amount one is loved.
Todd Stocker
The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership!
Rick Warren
Some will, some won't. Look for the ones who will.
Todd Stocker
Every church has a marketing plan! The only difference is that some are better than others! When I think of marketing I think of building a relationship with those within reach of your ministry who know nothing about your church or are disconnected from your people.
Gary Rohrmayer
Introverts don't like small talk conversation, but they typically don't mind writing. The more people can "see" you on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or a blog, the more they will feel like they know you, even though you don't have one-on-one interaction with them.
Thom S. Rainer
We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame, but God will do this
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What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.
Andy Stanley
Too often we assume that God has increased our income to increase our standard of living, when his stated purpose is to increase our standard of giving. (Look again at 2 Corinthians 8:14 and 9:11).
Randy Alcorn
..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.
Randy Alcorn
It's curious that the Church has become the most tightfisted at the very time in history when God has provided most generously. There's considerable talk about the end of the age, and many people seem to believe that Christ will return in their lifetime. But why is it that expecting Christ's return hasn't radically influenced our giving? Why is it that people who believe in the soon return of Christ are so quick to build their own financial empires--which prophecy tells us will perish--and so slow to build God's kingdom?
Randy Alcorn
Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.
Randy Alcorn
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
Randy Alcorn
Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.
Andy Stanley
[God] wants you to go home, look at your bucket of seed, and determine in your heart how much you'd like to sow. He wants you to consider thoughtfully your current circumstances, your life, your potential, and your finances. He wants you to involve your family. He wants you to pray about it. And then He wants you to come up with a plan.
Andy Stanley
Giving tithes alone is not enough for financial prosperity.
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Love without sharing is torture. Love without giving is death.
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Giving is a quality of God Himself
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Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.
Eric Ludy
If the enemy attacks, it is because God is giving you much more
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One of the effects of the gospel going deeper into our souls is that it frees our fingers to loosen their grasp on our goods.
David Mathis
For the Christian, the issue is not just that we give, but how. ‘God loves a cheerful giver’ (2 Cor. 9:7). And giving gladly rests on the great why of Christian generosity: that Christ himself—our Savior, Lord, and greatest treasure—demonstrated the ultimate in generosity in coming to buy us back. ‘Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich’ (2 Cor. 8:9). If Jesus is in us, then increasingly such an open-handed tendency will be in us as well.
David Mathis
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.
Randy Alcorn
...if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
Randy Alcorn
Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.
Randy Alcorn
Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted
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Imagine you're alive at the end of the Civil War. You're living in the South, but you're a Northerner. You plan to move home as soon as the war's over. While in the South you've accumulated lots of Confederate currency. Now, suppose you know for a fact the North's going to win the war, and the end is imminent. What will you do with your Confederate money? If you're smart, there's only one answer. You should immediately cash in your Confederate currency for U. S. currency - the only money that will have value once the war's over. Keep only enough Confederate currency to meet your short-term needs. Kingdom currency, backed by the eternal treasury, is the only medium of exchange recognized by the Son of God, whose government will last forever. The currency of his kingdom is our present faithful service and sacrificial use of our resources for him. The payoff in eternity will be what Paul called 'a firm foundation' consisting of treasures beyond our wildest dreams.
Randy Alcorn
Virtues are worth more than the material things.
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The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.
Paul David Tripp
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.
Randy Alcorn
Eschatology is the dustbin into which we sweep everything we don't want. To believe. We believe that the Lord will manifest Himself to men, but He'll do it tomorrow, or the day after, or the next millennium.
A.W. Tozer
Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventually be a universal reality once again--a world of peace and justice, without death, disease, or conflict.
Timothy J. Keller
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
I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.
Don Piper
When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.
Craig Groeschel
It's all—let's use a very specific word here—miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light—it's all miraculous, and it always has been.
Rob Bell
The time of the third millennium is the time when the people of God will walk, covered byGod’s glory, performing great wonders and miracles.
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The mentality of seeking miracles from one place to another is destructive to the economy
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Our covetousness for miracles and wonders leads into self-deception
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Messages focused on miracles has eliminated stewardship messages.
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When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
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Instead of looking for miracles why believe so strong in invisible virtues like dignity of labor.
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Once people get to the promise land, they have to perform miracles by themselves.
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When you begin to expect miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
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Jesus expect miracles to run after you, He does not expect you to run after miracles.
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You should not reduce yourself to any that runs after miracles.
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Miracles should run after you and not you running after miracles.
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When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself.
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When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.
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When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them helpless.
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When we teach people to run after miracles, we make them shallow men.
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Hospitals are better and more reliable than miracle crusades.
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Stop looking for miracles through mystic way
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The only condition that miracles will come is after you have done your best.
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If we don’t do our best and constantly ask God for miracles, it means we are objurgating our responsibility to God.
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There are so many downsides to the message of looking for miracles.
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When we over emphasis that we need God for every little thing, then we begin to depend on miracles.
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The messages emphasizing miracles and breakthrough must be replaced if our nation must move forward.
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Miracles cut corners and beat rules.
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