Quotes by Pastors - Page 21

When all is lost, but life, really nothing is lost.
Sunday Adelaja
Once time is lost it can never be regained
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You will be someone else if you did not answer the question “Who am I
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Lost sheep are scattered because the people who are supposed to shepherd them are not aware
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Not to discover the love of God is to be lost in life
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To be naked is a sign that the glory is lost
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To be lonely is to have lost the enjoyed fellowship with God
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The Glory of God is lost if the boundary is crossed
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The country is not growing because the mental state of the people are retarded
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If you don’t walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction
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If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.
Bill Hybels
Leaders should always be the initiators of reconciliation.
Adam LiVecchi
A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.
Todd Stocker
If a country complains that they don’t have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to.
Sunday Adelaja
You leaders, where do you lead your people to? Do you sow in them the seed of possession?
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I am strategically and methodically preparing leaders in a more result oriented setting.
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A leader should have the same attitude of God’s love toward people.
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Rest and comfort are two different things. Rest is a planned temporary time to refresh and refocus the leader. Comfort is when you settle into unproductive routines and accept satisfactory or unsatisfactory results.
Gary Rohrmayer
Self-reliance is an America virtue but not a biblical value. Solomon wrote, "The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice." (Proverbs 12:15) The word 'listen' carries with it the meaning of seeking out as well as receiving advice. A lot of pain can be prevented if leaders would just check in with their coach before a making a big decision.
Gary Rohrmayer
A strong team consists of people who know how to follow a leader.
Sunday Adelaja
Missional leaders are comfortable in the own skin.
Gary Rohrmayer
You must remember that you are called to save and set others free, to raise and develop strong and powerful leaders, who will form the government of the nations for Christ
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If you have problems with your earthly authorities it may be probably because you have not been praying enough for your leaders
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If the goal is unknown, then abuse is inevitable
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We must intentionally push ourselves out of our comfort zones if we are to make any significant progress on this side of life.
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If there is progress anywhere it is because there has been people who worked for it not just prayed for it.
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Progress is impossible without accurate planning.
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The reality however is that in order to make progress in life, we have to embrace discomfort.
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Those who hear this solemn call of life and respond with the corresponding supply receive progress in life.
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An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.
Warren W. Wiersbe
Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric.
Sunday Adelaja
When we tell people that God will do this and that without teaching people how to do their best, we are doing a disservice to them.
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Churches are no more relevant because they haven’t balanced there teachings.
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The balance message is that churches are to teach people the miracle workers themselves.
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Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to discover their territory and cultivate their land.
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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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We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with.
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Every Christian leader is oblige to teach their members how to work and bring about productivity.
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Researchers have found there is simply no correlation between hurry or Type-A behavior and productivity.
John Ortberg Jr.
Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.
Darren T. Patrick
Whether you are aged or weak, you can still serve the Lord
Sunday Adelaja
Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
Max Lucado
Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.
Max Lucado
If your hope disappoints you, it is the wrong kind of hope. You see, hope in God never disappoints, precisely because it is hope *in God.* This means that hope placed in any other thing will always end up disappointing.
Paul David Tripp
...your life is your sermon...Are you a good translation?
Mark Batterson
God makes his gospel attractive through his people.
Gary Rohrmayer
The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.
Mark Buchanan
For the place God calls us into isn’t doubt free—how can any place where we walk by faith and not by sight be that? No, the holy wild is where we have driving and haunting doubts, God-hungry doubts that pull us to our knees, force us to the Word, make us wrestle all night and not let go until He blesses us. The holy wild throngs with true skeptics.
Mark Buchanan
God’s definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It’s not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It’s not about life being fair. It’s about acceptance.
Mark Buchanan
It is through us Christians that the world must know the love of the Savior
Sunday Adelaja
The Good News of love must be a lifestyle, not a program for Christian
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Our task is not multiplying the number of our church members but making people happy
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Be determined to live a pure, holy and godly life; decide to honor, love and value other people, and to live a life that reflects Christ to others
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Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live
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Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
Eric Ludy
Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.
Mark Buchanan
We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity...We have to train for the spiritual life.
Mark Buchanan
If there is no scent of Christ’s love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.
Eric Ludy
...God is not dead; he really does communicate today. He's interested in every part of your life, your home, your finances, every kind of decision - and more than just the moral issues. His eye is always on you. He wants to lead you. But you have to believe that he will indeed speak to you when you wait before him in believing prayer, with a yielded heart to do his will.
Jim Cymbala
If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.
Jim Cymbala