Quotes by Pastors - Page 24

Worship shadows eternity and provides supernatural encouragement.
Matt Chandler
The church is the primary arena in which we learn that glory does not consist in what we do for God but in what God does for us.
Eugene H. Peterson
Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.
Eugene H. Peterson
Prayer is a way of language practiced in the presence of God in which we become more than ourselves while remaining ourselves.
Eugene H. Peterson
Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.
Eugene H. Peterson
The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.
David Platt
Making disciples of Jesus is the overflow of the delight in being disciples of Jesus.
David Platt
As you call people to submit to the Person of Christ, you can trust the Spirit of Christ to lead them to salvation.
David Platt
Expositing. John 14, the speaker explains that the Holy Spirit making His home with us involves Him exposing other areas of our lives for repentance, regeneration, and renewal.
Matt Chandler
If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.
Matt Chandler
Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado
Matt Chandler
The speaker says one of the blessings of the family of God is that the enthusiasm of children influences their elders while experience seasons the younger members.
Matt Chandler
Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.
Dave Harvey
Good disciplemaking requires both intentionality and relationality. It means being strategic and being social. Most of us are bent one way or the other. We’re naturally relational, but lacking in intentionality. Or we find it easy to be intentional, but not relational. We typically tip (or sometimes lean) one way or the other as we begin the disciplemaking process. But tipping and leaning won’t cover the full picture of what life-on-life disciplemaking requires. It’s not just friend-to-friend, and it’s not just teacher-to-student. It’s both. There is the sharing of ordinary life (relationship) and seeking to initiate and make the most of teachable moments (intentionality). There are the long walks through Galilee and the sermons on the mount. Disciplemaking is both organic and engineered, relational and intentional, with shared context and shared content, quality and quantity time.
David Mathis
We email, Facebook, tweet and text with people who are going to spend eternity in either heaven or hell. Our lives are too short to waste on mere temporal conversations when massive eternal realities hang in the balance. Just as you and I have no guarantee that we will live through the day, the people around us are not guaranteed tomorrow either. So let's be intentional about sewing the threads of the gospel into the fabric of our conversations every day, knowing that it will not always be easy, yet believing that eternity will always be worth it.
David Platt
The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
J.D. Greear
God in His sovereign goodness often uses the painful and at times debilitating injury of a spear thrower to make us readier for His service. ... One thing you discover about spear throwers is that though it’s not necessary for them to be good, it’s essential for them to appear good.
Erwin W. Lutzer
One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
Nobody touches my ding dongs!
Ray S. Jones
The truth is what we say it is...prove to me this desk is not a cow!
Ray S. Jones
If the teachings of the Protestants in Europe gave birth to the Protestant ethics and the modern civilization, it becomes alarming that most of our charismatic teachings today mainly concentrate on individual aggrandizement
Sunday Adelaja
Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught
Sunday Adelaja
God always has fresh ideas
Sunday Adelaja
To pursue selfish personal ideas is not wise enough
Sunday Adelaja
Success is never achieved for when your think you reach it, something else grabs your interest.
Todd Stocker
...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us.
Joshua Harris
As I see it, dating is a product of our entertainment-driven, disposable-everything American culture...Love and romance became things people could solely enjoy for their recreational value.
Joshua Harris
Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.
Joshua Harris
Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.
Joshua Harris
We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.
Joshua Harris
The joy of intimacy is the reward of commitment.
Joshua Harris
A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
Myles Munroe
When you confront, you save yourself a lot of sorrow.
Sunday Adelaja
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose
Sunday Adelaja
There is nothing you can do about it. Self-education is the most important thing that can happen to you.
Sunday Adelaja
You were born to be amazing.
Kris Vallotton
You can renew your mind by filling it with the Word of God.
Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.
Sunday Adelaja
You know who is for you and against you when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
When you confront, you are more result oriented.
Sunday Adelaja
You are more effective when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
You don’t waste time on suspecting or second guessing when you confront.
Sunday Adelaja
When you are on top of your stuff, which on its own will secure you continuous increase
Sunday Adelaja
If you will conduct a poll with most people in our world today and ask them to tell you what is the ideal life they dream about. Most people will tell you that they are dreaming of having a house on an island, but really they are spending away and whining away their lives.
Sunday Adelaja
Your ideas about possession must increase until you get to a state of full possession of the land, city and nation
Sunday Adelaja
You need to step out to build before God could bless what you are building
Sunday Adelaja
You need to guard the city before God could protect it for you
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
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.
Craig Groeschel
Wherever you are, be all there.
Craig Groeschel
You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
Craig Groeschel
Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.
Craig Groeschel
God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.
Craig Groeschel
The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
Craig Groeschel
To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
Craig Groeschel
Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.
Craig Groeschel
He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.
Craig Groeschel
God says happiness is contentment with what you already have, with what He provides you, with what you can share.
Craig Groeschel