Quotes by Pastors - Page 17

The hope that we have in Christ is so gloriously wonderful, why would we ever keep it to ourselves? When we refuse to communicate the Gospel there is nothing more cruel or selfish in all of humanity. Because we do believe that it is the only way-Christ is the only name-by which men and women can be saved. And to withhold that name and that news because it's difficult is on par with any other atrocious thing humanity has ever seen.
Britt Merrick
Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.
Mark Dever
The proof of salvation is not listening to the Word, or having a quick emotional response to the Word, or even cultivating the Word so that it grows in a life. The proof of salvation is fruit, for as Christ said, “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matt. 7:16).
Warren W. Wiersbe
Europe was set free largely thanks to the Protestant reformation that began to teach that believers don’t have any assurances to salvation through the back doors.
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If a person is saved, and still continues to live according to his former worldly way of life, he isnot only destroying himself and his salvation — he is also destroying his whole life.
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God picked you up, saved you and redeemed you, not only because He needs you, but because this present generation also needs you. You represent hope to several thousands of people.
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God gave us his word of salvation, for us to become the agents of His principles and the doers of His will, His judgment on earth
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That is the heavenly Father's deepest impulse toward us. You are the apple of His eye. And anyone who messes with you messes with Him. His protective instincts are most poignantly seen at the cross - the place where unconditional love and omnipotent power for the amalgam called amazing grace. That's where the Creator stepped between every fallen sinner and the fallen angel, Satan. That's where the Advocate took His stand against the Accuser of the brethren. The Sinless Son of God took the fall for us.The cross is God's way of saying, "You are worth dying for.
Mark Batterson
God is concerned with the salvation of nations
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This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
Mark Buchanan
It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
Timothy J. Keller
It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God’s power and might in orderto have prosperity.
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Everyone needs to learn to see the invisible selestian realities.
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We are all blessed, but we must learn to count our blessings
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The main thing is to learn to pray regularly, to do it systematically
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Never become a slave to tradition, learn to foresee new things.
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We need to bless instead of condemning, we need to learn to stand for the truth of God and for our rights
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We need to learn to be deliverers and not just talk about it
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We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory , which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.
David Jeremiah
We must have a deep understanding of Who is the source of our blessings and to whom all the glory, praise and honor belong.
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To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.
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He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others
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The greatest honor is the right direction one is turned into by the Holy Spirit
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Sometimes I wonder which is worse: To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?
Jason E. Royle
Sometimes I wonder which is worse: "To have to kill because it is your job, or to have no remorse for all the murderous things you have done?
Jason E. Royle
My concern is to help people find out how they could best live their lives to hit the mark almost every single time.
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To render help is to have the skills needed
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The lord has already provided everything that we need and all the necessary conditions needed to help us to succeed
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We have to make sure we have done our part then he will come and help us.
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Only God is our reliable help and protection
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In order to be more successful than the other people, you have to do something that otherpeople are not doing.
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Trying to figure some people out would be like trying to put an elephant in a blender.
Adam LiVecchi
The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don’t need to be good, better than anybody else but just want to pray and get favor.
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People should not expect to eat if they did not work.
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People should not expect to reap if they have not sown.
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In a country where miracles are been emphasized, people lose their sense of priority.
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Through the messages of miracles and breakthrough,people are now more like slaves than human beings.
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The miracle centered gospel gives people this mentality that they could have their way without being their best.
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Our miracle centered gospel is what has turned our people into scammers.
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Miracles centered gospel makes our people to be superficial and light.
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People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly.
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Anything we are preaching to people is what they become
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Christians, who do not know the purpose of their salvation, are actually just mediocre people
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The things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave.
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People don’t believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly.
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To get something from nothing means God will do everything and people don’t have to do anything.
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If people are not in the process of production, they don’t deserve anything.
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People who sit and expects miracles are wicked.
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It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people.
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When our gospel promotes too much miracles, we are telling people that it is normal for them to expect something from nothing.
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When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.
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The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing their own best.
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God is looking for godly people to send to the world of finances to subdue it for him.
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The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.
Tullian Tchividjian
I think most Christians hear these urgent calls to do more (or feel them internally already) and learn to live with a low-level guilt that comes from not doing enough. We know we can always pray more and give more and evangelize more, so we get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.
Kevin DeYoung
One of the big lies with sin is that we are already waist-deep and might as well just plunge in.
Matt Chandler
I can turn every "is" into "ought ".
Kevin DeYoung
We get used to living in a state of mild disappointment with ourselves.
Kevin DeYoung
Another very important aspect of the Protestant teachings is that money is simply a by-product, a natural consequence, a compensation, it is never the goal.
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