Quotes by Pastors - Page 2

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
Develop your gift to ensure that your invention will be put into practice
Sunday Adelaja
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
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
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
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
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
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
God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him
Sunday Adelaja
Always feel obligated to help people and carter for more needs of people so as to be more relevant to the world
Sunday Adelaja
I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work
Sunday Adelaja
It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.
Craig Groeschel
There is a mighty force, energy and ability inside us that has not yet been noticed by the world
Sunday Adelaja
To Influence Every Sphere Of Society Is To Engage The Power Of The Gospel
Sunday Adelaja
Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations
Sunday Adelaja
Knowledge isn’t life changing. The application of knowledge is.
Todd Stocker
Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear.
Todd Stocker
Patience is something I can’t wait to have!
Todd Stocker
The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square
Sunday Adelaja
Men who know God and his heart, would not hide behind their pulpit when justice is been ridiculed in their society
Sunday Adelaja
The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when truth is ridiculed. When God doesn’t see men who stand in defense of the truth.
Sunday Adelaja
His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.
Craig Groeschel
Merry Heart And Joy Is To Maintain Your Well Being
Sunday Adelaja
It is very important how efficiently and wisely we manage and plan to use the blessings that God has already given to us
Sunday Adelaja
Many things can be released into our lives in the spirit realm through a ministry
Sunday Adelaja
The fact that you have a large sum of money in your wallet does not remove your responsibility from you before God to be involved in a ministry in the body of Christ
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