Quotes by Pastors - Page 2

You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.
Sunday Adelaja
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
When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.
Craig Groeschel
If God is for you, nothing can stand against you
Sunday Adelaja
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
You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
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
Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under His protection
Sunday Adelaja
For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
Sunday Adelaja
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.
Sunday Adelaja
Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
Sunday Adelaja
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
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
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
The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of two movements. First it gets us into the sanctuary, the place of adoration and attention, listening and receiving and believing before God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives ordered to all aspects of the revelation of God in Jesus.Then it gets us out of the sanctuary into the world into places of obeying and loving ordering our lives as living sacrifices in the world to the glory of God. There is a lot involved, all the parts of our lives out on the street participating in the work of salvation.
Eugene H. Peterson
Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as it participates formationally in Holy Scripture. I want to use the word 'liturgy' to refer to this intent and practice of the church insofar as it pulls everything in and out of the sanctuary into a life of worship, situates everything past and present coherently as participation in the revelation written for us in Scripture. Instead of limiting liturgy to the ordering of the community in discrete acts of worship, I want to use it in this large and comprehensive way, the centuries-deep and continents-wide community, spread out in space and time, as Christians participate in actions initiated and formed by the words in this book - our entire existence understood liturgically, that is connectedly in the context of the three personal Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and furnished with the text of the Holy Scripture.
Eugene H. Peterson
Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne Cordeiro
More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son
Sunday Adelaja
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction. The earth is man’s domain. Man therefore is responsible for what transpires here.
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
To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness
Sunday Adelaja
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
Time is the only commodity in life that cannot be bought, sold, borrowed, given out as a gift and it cannot be inherited.
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
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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
The domain of God is primarily heaven. That is where he has limited himself to.
Sunday Adelaja
He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
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A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence
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I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
Matt Chandler
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
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
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
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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
The earth is man’s domain.
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
An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
Gary Rohrmayer