Quotes by Pastors - Page 27

You didn’t create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for! If I handed you an invention you had never seen before, you wouldn’t know it’s purpose, and the invention itself wouldn’t be able to tell you either. Only the creator or the owner’s manual could reveal it’s purpose.
Rick Warren
If the creation is separated from the creator, the creation will die
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You are created with a purpose
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God doesn't NEED raw material. He MAKES material.
Matt Chandler
One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.
James MacDonald
Apprenticeship assumes that knowing a trade not only comes by numbers and outlines but also by watching and inhabiting. Knowing is found in these forms, because teaching is. We teach not only by our words and assignments but also by the manner of our words and the ways we ourselves already embody the assignments we give.
Zack Eswine
The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ's authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of Christ's character, he was drawn back to know Christ more fully.
Don Wilton
Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.
Andy Stanley
One of the most significant consequences of the proliferation of tests over the last decades of the 20th century and the first of the 21th has been this tendency of assessment to direct the curriculum. Like a huge magnet, assessment drags curriculum toward it. It should, of course, even if we accept the need for tests, be the other way round: the curriculum should be shaped independent of any consideration of tests: tests should be constructed and administered in another space, both literally and metaphorically, hermetically sealed not only form the teacher’s gaze but also – and even more importantly – from the teacher’s consideration. In practice, though, this never happens. It is inevitable that if you decide regularly to test children's performance on the curriculum, and if, furthermore, you make teacher’s careers and school’s futures depend on the result, the tests will very quickly come to dominate what is taught. Not only the content, but also the style and manner of the teaching will be influenced by the tests. Teaching will be about getting the right answer, irrespective of understanding.
Gary Thomas
The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work
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Life in the Kingdom of God is accepting and knowing Jesus Christ, it is studying and applyingHis teachings to your life.
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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.
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One major teaching of the Protestants that we the Protestants of today must go back to is the fact that the European Protestants did not emphasize five fold ministry the way we do today. Today our teaching on the five fold ministry only tends to view only those called to the five fold ministry as those called to be ministers, while the rest of the congregation is just viewed as laity who just go to secular jobs.
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Personal destiny is discovered through teachings
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What you reveal shows the essence of your teaching
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To redeem the influential sphere of the government is to act based on the teaching received
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...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.
Andy Stanley
In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.
Todd Stocker
To sacrifice anything is of great honor. To sacrifice everything is of God.
Todd Stocker
Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent. Love calls you to act when you would really like to wait, and to wait when you would really like to act. Love calls you to stop when you really want to continue and it calls you to continue when you feel like stopping. Love requires you to lead when you really would like to follow, and to follow when you really want to lead. Love again and again calls you away from your instincts and your comfort. Love always requires personal sacrifice. Love calls you to give up your life.
Paul David Tripp
Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.
Gary Rohrmayer
Only love can inspire us to sacrifice.
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Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under His protection
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Our body is the sacrifice that God requires at this hour
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Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it.
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There is a personal sacrifice required to realize God’s passion
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Whatever a person wants to sacrifice for God will be multiplied many times over by God will be multiplied many times over by God for that person
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Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under God’s protection
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For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary
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...the true value of an offering isn't measured by how much we give. It's measured by how much we keep...By definition, a sacrifice must involve sacrifice...
Mark Batterson
The difference between the old Testament and the new testament is that God doesn’t want sacrifices anymore
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Put your Isaac on the altar! Then, and only then, will you see what God can do. He cannot give back what you do not give up. But if you surrender yourself to Him, He will provide the ram in the thicket.
Mark Batterson
Nothing shows our hearts like sacrifice. When we are willing not only to give from our excess, but to embrace some personal loss or disadvantage for the sake of showing generosity toward others, we say loudly and clearly…that we have a greater love than ourselves and our comforts.
David Mathis
It is the grace of God that frees a soul from selfishness and empowers not just generosity, but sacrifice. And such sacrifice God will not overlook. In faith our giving to meet others’ needs becomes an occasion for more divine grace to flood our souls.
David Mathis
The kingdom of God is an upside-down kingdom. It beckons us to gamble all, to trust radically, to come and die so that we might live--to give our lives away. Giving life away is a paradox. It's losing so we can win. It's giving so we can receive. It's risking for security. It's faith. The kingdom of God means living that tension.
Ken Wytsma
I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I've done, but because of what Jesus has done.
Rick Warren
You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.
Kris Vallotton
We need to know that a dark night is always followed by a nice morning
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For us to have great and impressive increase, we need to do than just lying down and wishing for the best. We need to get off the bed, lay demands on ourselves and exert enough pressure, as much as necessary to get the kind increase we need
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Faith precedes all great accomplishments.
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We all have visions both great and small
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The greatest teaching is restoration of mankind to divine love of God
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Let Christ’s great commission become yours
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The great love was displayed for us at cavalry
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Great people do not struggle for their position
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To see great result let your conversations reveals ultimate priority of restoring the kingdom
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For The Plan Of Redemption To Be Achieve, A Great Purchase Was Done
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God sees you as a great person
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Employment deprives you of purpose
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Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders
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You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation.
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Idolatry means turning a good thing into the ultimate thing.
Timothy J. Keller
A job should only be a means of attaining the highest goal
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When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community.
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True love isn’t just expressed in passionately whispered words oran intimate kiss or an embrace; before two people are married, love isexpressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
In the past, the starting point of my relationships was what Iwanted instead of what God wanted. I looked out for my needs andfit others into my agenda. Did I find fulfillment? No, I found onlycompromise and heartache. I not only hurt others; I also hurt myself,and most seriously, I sinned against God.
Joshua Harris
Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
Bill Hybels
A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.
Timothy J. Keller
Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.
Todd Stocker
Don't sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.
Joel Osteen