Quotes by Pastors - Page 2

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
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
Sunday Adelaja
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
Sunday Adelaja
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
Sunday Adelaja
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
I am strategically and methodically preparing leaders in a more result oriented setting.
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
Eric Ludy
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
Sunday Adelaja
To be meshed with Christ is to be immersed in his love
Sunday Adelaja
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.
Sunday Adelaja
You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
Anytime you testify you have some amount of increase or the other, God does not want you to get satisfied
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
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
Sunday Adelaja
For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
Sunday Adelaja
We need to know that a dark night is always followed by a nice morning
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
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
There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled
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
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
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
Sunday Adelaja
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
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
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
Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne Cordeiro
The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.
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
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
More so God didn’t choose to resolve the problem of the earth by sending PRAYERS but by sending his son
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
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
Live in a way that would not leave us regretting after so many years on earth.
Sunday Adelaja
When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
Craig Groeschel