Quotes by Pastors - Page 12

Any nation that teaches and makes it's people look for miracles is making it's people shallow.
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We overemphasise miracles when we are supposed to be planning and be thinking forward.
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Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country.
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If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.
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There is so much evil in emphasizing too much miracles.
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The only person that deserves to ask for miracles is someone who is qualified.
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You don’t look for miracles, you don’t search for miracles, miracles is supposed to follow you.
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Merit is better than miracles.
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The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing.
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When we overemphasise miracles we underplay values.
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When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles.
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When we overemphasise miracles, we compromise the gospel we were asked to preach.
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When we overemphasise miracles, we think we are preaching but we are emphasizing on the wrong thing.
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We are insulting God by constantly depending and looking forward for miracles.
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There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead of the kingdom gospel.
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Miracle centered gospels cripple the present and generations to come.
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A gospel that is focused on miracle is creating fraudulent act.
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Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result.
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Miracle is the ability God has given you.
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We are not supposed to run after miracles but we are supposed to run after self-perfection, self-growth, self - improvements.
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To carry the atmosphere of God’s Glory is to extend it to the whole earth
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Not to love God is to be a puppet
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The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter
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Ones there is a demand, it is our obligation to supply the answers, give the right responses for us to fully enjoy life
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The right priorities in planning will help you to avoid fuss, tiredness and overwork
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Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.
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Righteousness gives a person the right to God’s protection.
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Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord
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Tests and persecutions will eventually lead to deliverance from bondage and make us stronger if we respond right to them
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Christians don’t the moral right to be indifferent
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Christians don’t have the moral right to be indifferent
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To discover strategy is to fulfill mandate
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It is an illusion that money brings happiness
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It is pointless to try to make an illusion real
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Stop living in the illusion that some ones anointing will help you rip from where you have not sown
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Miracle focus gospel is creating an illusion in peoples head
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In God’s third day we should reveal God to the world around us.
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Every man, who desires to become a true father, has to look continually to the Lord, that he might learn of Him how to relate to his own children
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Jesus Christ is the way of gaining a father, the path of a pure and righteous life without fornication, lust or adultery
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Your lifestyle shows who your father is
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To Be Raised Without An Earthly Father Is Never An Excuse Not To Discover Purpose
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Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid.
Timothy J. Keller
A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.
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A real pastor — a good shepherd — is always concerned about the personal development of every individual person in his church.
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A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.
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You have to become a ladder that other people climb up in their path to success. If you are not ready for that, then you are not ready to be a pastor.
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You can't make a difference unless you are different.
Chris Hodges
Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
Randy Alcorn
To make the most of your life, you must keep the vision of eternity continually in your mind and the value of it in your heart.
Rick Warren
I experience transcendence when something infinite reminds me I am finite.
James MacDonald
Peter suggests that we never forget one fact: 'That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as one day.' Translation: God sets His watch to a time zone not accessible to us. Once again we need to remember that He is the one who created time, like everything else, and He uses it for His own purposes.I like the little story about the foolishness of quantifying God's timing. A little boy asked God, 'How long is a second in heaven?' God said, 'One million years.' The boy asked, 'How much is a penny in heaven?' God answered, 'One million dollars.' The boy said, 'Could I have a penny?' To which God answered, 'In just a second.
David Jeremiah
Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity.
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We should not leave our "house of bread", because it is our assurance of eternity.
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What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.
Francis Chan
Death is not your termination but your transition into eternity, so there are eternal consequences to everything you do on earth. Every act of our lives strikes some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Rick Warren
Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?
Rick Warren
While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow. God views our lives from and for eternity, so he is never in a hurry.
Rick Warren
A deep soul lives in conscious awareness of eternity, not simply today.
John Ortberg
Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.
Randy Alcorn
When you confront, you are trying to avoid a conflict.
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