Quotes by Pastors - Page 22

Has your character ever been questioned because you ate or drank with sketchy people? Not everyone in the neighborhood is cleaned up and easy to be around. We need to be willing to follow Jesus and choose to be with others in uncomfortable situations, because we can't always expect people to come onto our turf; we must also be willing to enter their world. -The Art of Neighboring
Jay Pathak and Dave Runyon
Create a trophy room in your heart. Each time you experience a victory, place a memory on the shelf. Before you face a challenge, take a quick tour of God’s accomplishments. Look at all the paychecks he has provided, all the blessings he has given, all the prayers he had answered. Imitate the shepherd boy David. Before he fought Goliath, the giant, he remembered how God had helped him kill a lion and a bear (1 Samuel 17:34-36). He faced his future by revisiting the past.
Max Lucado
The tragic irony in all of this is that when we focus so strongly on our need to get better, we actually get worse.
Tullian Tchividjian
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
Part of our skittishness about Christian perfection is linguistic confusion. The English word "perfect" has absorbed the Greek notion of "teleos". When the Greeks looked at a building's blueprint, they pictured the building whole and complete. They envisioned the blueprint finished down to the bathroom tile and announced, "Ah, this is perfect." The problem is that "teleos" suggests that perfection is something we can build or achieve. The Hebrews looked at the same blueprint more practically. They envisioned the process of building from hard hats to hammers, from scaffolding to skylights. "Ah," the Hebrews said. "This is perfect." The Hebrews and the early Christians understood perfection as a process, not a product. Our identity as Christians depends upon life lived in relationship with God, not upon the quality of our achievements.
Kenda Creasy Dean
Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen.
Steve Farrar
The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.
Francis Chan
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less direct methods of reaching their goals...The tragic results of this spirit all all about us: shallow lives, hollow religious philosophies...the glorification of men, trust is religious externalities....salesmanship methods, the mistaking of dynamic personality for the power of the Spirit. These and such of these are the symptoms of an evil disease.
A.W. Tozer
Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true position will be exposed. Let him be forced into making a choice between God and money, between God and men, between God and personal ambition, God and self, God and human love, and God will take second place every time. Those other things will be exalted above. However the man may protest, the proof is in the choice he makes day after day throughout his life.
A.W. Tozer
Encourage others each and every day–nothing’s more important than our words.Did you know that, on average, each of us speaks about twenty-five thousand words daily? My last book didn’t have that many words. A lot of language is flowing out of our mouths every day and having an impact on those around us. But how much of that flow is fulfilling God’s intended purpose for our speech? How much of it reflects pride, rather than a gospel-motivated humility?
C.J. Mahaney
True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.
Francis Chan
His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.
Joseph Prince
Are you letting culture, not scripture, determine your sexuality, how you date, how you present yourself, how you engage in certain relationships with members of the opposite sex? We need to be very clear that the way we do life is different than the rest of the world.
Mark Driscoll
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
A.W. Tozer
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
Francis Chan
God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God
A.W. Tozer
Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
A.W. Tozer
We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Myles Munroe
Everyone is supposed to be on equal ground and the equal ground is supposed to be based on qualifications.
Sunday Adelaja
We have little control over the circumstances of life. We can't control the weather or the economy, and we can't control what other people say about or do to us. There is only one area where we have control--we can rule the kingdom inside. The heart of every problem is the problem in the heart.
Warren W. Wiersbe
God the Father and the Son don’t wish you to remain blind. It is men that put blindness upon other people for the purpose of control and manipulation.
Sunday Adelaja
Increase calls for review, check-up,control, and analysis.
Sunday Adelaja
A life without a plan is a life out of control.
Sunday Adelaja
We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.
Erwin Raphael McManus
Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles
Sunday Adelaja
You have to control the circumstances and things in your life. They should not control you
Sunday Adelaja
We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.
Jim Cymbala
People who are indifferent about the happenings around them are human biomasses.
Sunday Adelaja
We seize functioning as humans when we totally depend on miracles.
Sunday Adelaja
True wisdom is hidden in the fear of the Lord.
Sunday Adelaja
Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t wander around with your eyes closed, know your path clearly
Sunday Adelaja
The Lord has predestined a certain path for every person
Sunday Adelaja
The Lord has predestined a specific path for every person
Sunday Adelaja
It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution.
Sunday Adelaja
We should remember Christ's words, 'Let nothing be wasted,' when we look in our refrigerators and garbage cans and garages.
Randy Alcorn
The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
A.W. Tozer
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
Max Lucado
It is important to view current events through Christ-like eyes.
Todd Stocker
In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won't be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ's righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses.
Timothy J. Keller
In my opinion, Nigeria matters! The body of Christ matters
Sunday Adelaja
God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!
Sunday Adelaja
People and nations cannot be happy, if they do not acknowledge the Lordship of Jesus Christ
Sunday Adelaja
Don’t be a shallow person. Do everything with zealous devotion, as you would do it for Christ
Sunday Adelaja
The high ground of Christ & Him crucified must be claimed in our preaching. Any other footing is a slippery slope that inevitably descends downward into vain rhetoric and mere words. To the contrary, every pulpit must present a towering vision of the unique person and saving work of Jesus Christ. All preaching must point to His sin-bearing, substitutionary death for sinners. All exposition must lift up this Sacrificial Lamb who became a sin-bearing Substitute for all who believe. Every message must exalt this Christ, who was raised from the dead, exalted to the right hand of God the Father, and entrusted with all authority in heaven and earth.
Steven J. Lawson
Jesus is the culmination of the greatness and the goodness of God.
Matt Chandler
Even though the Bible is an ancient document, every person in every situation in every society that’s ever existed can find in this book things that endure forever. Here’s a book that never needs another edition. It never needs to be edited, never has to be updated, is never out of date or obsolete. It speaks to us as pointedly and directly as it ever has to anyone in any century since it was written. It’s so pure that it lasts forever.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
To allow Christ to live in you is to lose your ego-centric motivation
Sunday Adelaja
Wherever you are remember that you represent Christ
Sunday Adelaja
Wherever you are remember you represent Christ
Sunday Adelaja
If you know that you are born of Christ, you don’t need to worry, you are already guaranteed the victory
Sunday Adelaja
We are peacemakers but we are also army of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
Those who are called Christ’s have a priceless advantage
Sunday Adelaja
To be restored to Christ is to know a fulfilled life
Sunday Adelaja
For Thousands To Come To Christ, We Must Employ Kingdom Principles
Sunday Adelaja
God’s plan is for every believer to be married to Christ
Sunday Adelaja
To be married to Christ is to be meshed with him
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
If you uproot the idol and fail to plant the love of Christ in its place, the idol will grow back.
Tullian Tchividjian