Quotes by Pastors - Page 25

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 give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
Craig Groeschel
When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.
Craig Groeschel
There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.
Craig Groeschel
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.
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
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
Craig Groeschel
The promise you attract is determined by what you seek
Sunday Adelaja
If God is for you, nothing can stand against you
Sunday Adelaja
What you see is what suffices you
Sunday Adelaja
What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
Craig Groeschel
On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.
Craig Groeschel
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
Craig Groeschel
What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
Craig Groeschel
Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.
Craig Groeschel
How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
Craig Groeschel
The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl.-In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.
Tony Evans
The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.
Warren W. Wiersbe
A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.
James MacDonald
Those who refuse to grow, those who only finish school and call it quits regret through life.
Sunday Adelaja
The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.
Jared C. Wilson
To escape the damnation of hell is to accept God’s kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of “comfortability.” They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them.
A.W. Tozer
But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn't his point. He's often not talking about "beliefs" as we think of them--he's talking about anger and lust and indifference. He's talking about the state of his listeners' hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbors, about the kind of effect they have on the world.
Rob Bell
The reality is that all God has to do is reveal himself to you,and you'll gladly join the mission in service to his kingdom. He doesn't force the issue; he just has to reveal himself as is: mighty,wondrous, gracious, loving, and radically saving. No man goes back to saltine crackers when he's had fillet mignon.
Matt Chandler
Theology isn't what drove them to their...theology." author writes on dealing with the embittering experience of those who protect a wounded place with abstract arguments.
Andy Stanley
I won't pretend that I've arrived at humble orthodoxy. When I gain a bit of theological knowledge, I all too frequently get puffed up with pride. But I'll tell you what deflates my arrogance and self-righteousness faster than anything else: trying to live whatever truth I have.
Joshua Harris
I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.
Austin Fischer
We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?
Randy Alcorn
Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.
C.J. Mahaney
God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.
Matt Chandler
When the early Church recited the Apostles Creed, it was simultaneously their greatest act of rebellion, and their greatest act of submission.
Matt Chandler
I believe the discussion itself is divine.
Rob Bell
Theology is not superior to the Gospel. It exists to aid the preaching of salvation. Its business is to make the essential facts and principles of Christianity so simple and clear, so adequate and mighty, that all who preach or teach the Gospel, both ministers and laymen, can draw on its stores and deliver a complete and unclouded Christian message.
Walter Rauschenbusch
In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.
Walter Rauschenbusch
Church growth experts tell us that most people seeking a new church care little about its doctrines. They're mostly interested in the facilities of the church, its nursery, and opportunities for friendship. . . .The experts tell us that today's church members will switch churches at a moment's notice if they think that their personal and relational needs will be better met elsewhere--even if the doctrine taught is at best, suspect. Thus some will opt for better facilities and architecture even at the expense of jeopardizing their own soul.
Erwin W. Lutzer
I sometimes find, especially among my peers, that authenticity is not a…means of growing in holiness, but a convenient cover for endless introspection, doubt, uncertainty, anger, and worldliness. So that if other Christians seem pure, assured, and happy we despise them for being inauthentic.Granted, the church shouldn’t be happy-clappy naive about life’s struggles. Plenty of psalms show us godly ways to be real with our negative emotions. But the church should not apologize for preaching a confident Christ and exhorting us to trust Him in all things. Church is not meant to foster an existential crisis of faith every week
Kevin DeYoung
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.
A.W. Tozer
Trying to figure out God is like trying to catch a fish in the Pacific Ocean with an inch of dental floss.
Matt Chandler
The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman cross. They nailed Him on it, and God, in His majesty and mystery, turned it into an altar. The Lamb who was dying in the mystery and wonder of God was turned into the Priest who offered Himself. No one else was a worthy offering.
A.W. Tozer
What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
A.W. Tozer
The key to understnading masculinity is Jesus Christ. Jesus was tough with religious blockheads, false teachers, the proud, and bullies. Jesus was tender with women, children, and those who were suffering or humble. Additionally, Jesus took responsability for Himself. He worked a jon for the first thirty years of His life, swinging a hammer as a carpenter. He also took responsability for us on the cross, where He substituted Himself and died in our place for our sins. My sins are my fault, not Jesus'fault, but Jesus has made them His responsability. This is the essence of the gospel, the "good news". If you understand this, it will change how you view masculinity.
Mark Driscoll
What made Jesus' death uncommon, unusual? It was the dying of the just for the unjust. It was His sacrificial dying, His vicarious dying. He paid a debt He did not owe in behalf of the others too deeply in debt ever to pay.
A.W. Tozer
The poor of the earth know how much we really love Jesus.
Adam LiVecchi
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11
David Platt
Living communion with God in which He is real, alive, fresh, and present to your soul energizes a God-centered life.
Colin S. Smith
Early on in the Bible story, we will discover the devil taking on the form of an animal. At the center of the Bible story, we will find God taking on the form of a man. The Son of God is the image of God, and so when He took flesh, it was in the form of a man, because man was made in the image of God.
Colin S. Smith
The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.
Colin S. Smith
Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.
Colin S. Smith
A man’s main purpose in life is to find his ground, till it and care for it, bringing the Kingdom ofGod there and establishing the Lordship of Jesus Christ over it.
Sunday Adelaja
A man’s conquest depends on his knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus Christ is our spring board to promotion and prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
And I want you to know, before we go any further, that Jesus came to free you from religion. To those who have been hauling around a long list of rules. To those who are pretending to be more than they really are. To those who are weighed down with the fear and guilt of religion. To all the fans who are worn out on religion, Jesus invites you to follow him.
Kyle Idleman
...there is nothing you possess that wasn't given to you by God. It's His prerogative to give. And it's His prerogative to take away. But there is one thing that can never be taken from you, and that is Jesus Christ. And if you have Jesus, then you have everything you will ever need for all of eternity.Everything - Jesus = NothingJesus + Nothing = EverythingIt's that simple.
Mark Batterson
Jesus proclaimed the favor of God in His very first sermon. Then He sealed the deal with His death and resurrection. Favor is a function of surrender. If we don't hold out on God, God will not hold out on us.
Mark Batterson
Jesus Christ shed His blood so we could have a life filled with victories
Sunday Adelaja
Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.
Jarrid Wilson
If man had his way, the plan of redemption would be an endless and bloody conflict. In reality, salvation was bought not by Jesus' fist, but by His nail-pierced hands; not by muscle but by love; not by vengeance but by forgiveness; not by force but by sacrifice. Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.
A.W. Tozer