Quotes by Pastors - Page 2

More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son
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
I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message
Sunday Adelaja
Discover your gift if you don’t want to live the life of an ordinary person
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Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise
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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
Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
Sunday Adelaja
Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.
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
Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
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
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings
Paul Gitwaza
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.
Timothy J. Keller
People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase
Sunday Adelaja
Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
Sunday Adelaja
For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
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
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
Sunday Adelaja
Fruitfulness is impossible without action.
Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
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
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
Sunday Adelaja
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.
Timothy J. Keller
If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.
Craig Groeschel
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
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
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.
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
The destiny of the country depends on the actions and the position of His messengers
Sunday Adelaja
Discovering your identity is the key to fulfilling your destiny
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
If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him
Sunday Adelaja
Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.
Sunday Adelaja
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us
Sunday Adelaja
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing.
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
Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality
Sunday Adelaja
Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
Craig Groeschel
The world will always try to lure us away so that it can infect us with sin.
Sunday Adelaja
God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him
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