Quotes by Pastors - Page 2

A king and his domain results in a kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
To seek God’s kingdom is to discover its essence and totality
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Interacting with you should give answers to specific kingdom questions
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Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.
Mark Batterson
Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.
Colin S. Smith
God is concerned with the salvation of nations
Sunday Adelaja
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 things we are been fed with on the pulpit determines how our people behave.
Sunday Adelaja
Learn your topic through self-study through scrupulous analysis and learn about your goal
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God's principles of national transformation will give the opportunity to make positive changes in the country, overcoming crisis in politics, economy, social services and other spheres.
Sunday Adelaja
In any sphere of our life, if we learn to combine our prayers with actions, we will have victory
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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
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
Eugene H. Peterson
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
It is easy to say, but there is no way I could personally address every single problem in my nation, they are too many. Oh yea, you cannot fix all problems, but you can fix some problems, more importantly you could bring enlightenment to all others around you
Sunday Adelaja
We tend to look only on one side of God’s blessing, without noticing the other side of the coin
Sunday Adelaja
I am strategically and methodically preparing leaders in a more result oriented setting.
Sunday Adelaja
The Protestant teachings caused people to view their work as a way of proving their love to God so they tried to do their best and give the best quality to God by giving the best quality to man.
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Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
Eric Ludy
He wants you to understand that there are no wasted moments. For His glory He uses everything that's happened, everything that's happening, and everything that will happen - past, present, and future.
Louie Giglio
Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.
Sunday Adelaja
God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!
Sunday Adelaja
For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles
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To be meshed with Christ is to be immersed in his love
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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
You can renew your mind by filling it with the Word of God.
Sunday Adelaja
When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.
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You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
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Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied
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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
And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound difference in countless lives.
Craig Groeschel
When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.
Craig Groeschel
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
Craig Groeschel
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
If God is for you, nothing can stand against you
Sunday Adelaja
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
Craig Groeschel
Jesus Christ is our spring board to promotion and prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
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
To Partake In The Consequence of A Law Is To Violate It
Sunday Adelaja
The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc.
Sunday Adelaja
Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under His protection
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For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
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We need to know that a dark night is always followed by a nice morning
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Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
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You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.
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There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled
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The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.
Don Cousins
The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals
Sunday Adelaja
Paul Ricoeur has wonderful counsel for people like us. Go ahead, he says, maintain and practice your hermaneutics of suspicion. It is important to do this. Not only important, it is necessary. There are a lot of lies out there; learn to discern the truth and throw out the junk. But then reenter the book, the world, with what he calls 'a second naivete'.' Look at the world with childlike wonder, ready to be startled into surprised delight by the profuse abundance of truth and beauty and goodness that is spilling out of the skies at every moment. Cultivate a hermaneutic of adoration - see how large, how splendid, how magnificent life is.And then practice this hermaneutic of adoration in the reading of Holy Scripture. Plan on spending the rest of our lives exploring and enjoying the world both vast and intricate that is revealed by this text.
Eugene H. Peterson
David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside him and essentially says, "If I could have only one thing, I want to be with God, to be in His presence, to know that he is always with me." Whether in good times or bad times, David knew the thing he needed most: to feel God's presence close by, intimately, through worship.
Craig Groeschel
Somewhere along the line, "Church" became a weekly event rather than a gathering of people who did life together.
Todd Stocker
Money does not go only to those who go to church, it goes to those who know and comply with the laws of money
Sunday Adelaja
A clarion call to the 7000 remnants who are yet to bow their knees to Baal, to arise and come out of the wilderness to take charge of the guard that would lead their Nations and church to the promise land
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Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.
Paul Gitwaza
Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in memorizing verses and going to church every week.
Craig Groeschel
Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot
Sunday Adelaja
Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world by and with Jesus following our spiritually-forming text. Liturgy keeps us in touch with all the action that has been and is being generated by the Spirit as given witness in the biblical text. Liturgy prevents the narrative form of Scripture from being reduced to private individualized consumption.Understood this way, 'liturgical' has little to do with choreography in the chancel or an aesthetics of the sublime. It is obedient, participatory, listening to Holy Scripture in the company of the holy community through time (our two-thousand years of responding to this text) and in space (our friends in christ all over the world). High-church Anglicans, revivalistic Baptists, hands-in-the-air praising charismatics, and Quakers sitting in a bare room in silence are all required to read and live this text liturgically, participating in the holy community's reading of Holy Scripture. there is nothing 'churchy' or elitist about it; it is a vast and dramatic 'story-ing,' making sure that we are taking our place in the story and letting everyone else have their parts in the story also, making sure that we don't leave anything or anyone out of the story. Without sufficient liturgical support and structure we are very apt to edit the story down to fit our individual tastes and predispositions.
Eugene H. Peterson