Quotes by Pastors - Page 36

...success is when those who know you best respect you most.
Mark Batterson
The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect.
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There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.
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People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you.
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Ironically, we often fail to see that whenever we compromise ourselves to please others, we tend to lose their respect.
Craig Groeschel
To take responsibility is to create respect for the church throughout the earth
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It is pointless to be called by God’s name and not have His respect
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Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces
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Because God has been reduced in the minds of people, they do not have that boundless confidence in His character that used to be prominent among Christians. Confidence is necessary to respect. You cannot respect a man in whom you have no confidence. Extend that respect upward to God and if you cannot respect God, you cannot worship Him. You cannot have confidence in Him, because where there is no respect there can be no worship.
A.W. Tozer
Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
Timothy J. Keller
When God speaks about equity, that choice of word, makes us understand that God is not referring to the leaders of the land or the elite this time around. He is actually talking about how ordinary citizens of the land relate to each other in fairness and impartiality
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There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.
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The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
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The outcome of one’s life is determined by choice to obey kingdom laws
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To Love The Kingdom Life Is A Choice
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For every choice there is a tragedy
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Love is always by definition a choice
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Free will is absolute when the choice is right
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More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.
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Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)
Randy Alcorn
Did you ever stop to think that God is going to be as pleased to have you with Him in Heaven as you are to be there?
A.W. Tozer
The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however good that pleasure may be in itself, is always taken away from us. The things for which men strive hardly ever turn out to be as satisfying as they expected, and in the rare cases in which they do, sooner or later they are snatched away.... For the Christians, all those partial, broken and fleeting perfections which he glimpses in the world around him, which wither in his grasp and he snatches away from him even while the wither, are found again, perfect, complete and lasting in the absolute beauty of God.
Randy Alcorn
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit. It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn. Life in the age to come. Earthy.
Rob Bell
For the Christian, death is not the end of adventure but a doorway from a wold where dreams and adventures shrink, to a world where dreams and adventures forever expand.
Randy Alcorn
When God plans to bless a man, he takes this poor time-cursed creature into His hand and says., My son, I breath into you eternity and immortality.
A.W. Tozer
If you're a child of God, you do not just "go around once" on Earth. You don't get just one earthly life. You get another-one far better and without end. You'll inhabit the New Earth! You'll live with the God you cherish and the people you love as an undying person on an undying Earth.
Randy Alcorn
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.
Randy Alcorn
Because satan hates us, he's determined to rob us of the joy we'd have if we believed what God tells us about the magnificent world to come.
Randy Alcorn
if you can't take a nap, if you can't take a day off, heaven's going to drive you nuts.
Mark Driscoll
This life is a wading pool compared to the ocean call eternity.
Todd Stocker
The cabin on the lake is nothing compared to my mansion in eternity!
Todd Stocker
She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.
Randy Alcorn
The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.
Colin S. Smith
If Miss Watson had told Huck what the Bible says about living in a resurrected body and being with people we love on a resurrected Earth with gardens and rivers and mountains and untold adventures--now that would have gotten his attention.
Randy Alcorn
I’d once heard a spiritual “riddle” that went like this: “What’s the only thingin heaven that’s the same as it was on earth?”The answer: the wounds in Jesus’ hands and feet.
Todd Burpo
Likewise, most of the world goes to bed at night under the assumption that if they were to die in their sleep, they would find themselves standing at the pearly gates. After all, good people go to heaven. And just about everybody thinks they are good.
Andy Stanley
Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.
Chris Hodges
When you strive to possess, there is always a reward waiting for you both in heaven and on earth.
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You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.
Kris Vallotton
Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.
Don Piper
It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from theLord, Who created heaven and earth.
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God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.
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The Protestant church today need to borrow a leaf from the actions of the Protestants of old. We need to preach the gospel not just from the aspect of selfish gains and profit, but from the kingdom perspective whereby we strive to build the kingdom of God through each believer on the earth as it is in heaven.
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This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing.
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This generation must spend less time waiting for manna from heaven, but spend more time in the fields building and producing
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The domain of God is primarily heaven. That is where he has limited himself to.
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There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision.
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The future glories of heaven have been overshadowed by the present glitter of earth, and many Christians have sunk into a health-wealth-and-prosperity comfort zone from which only death itself or the rapture of the church would dare remove them - and even those would be unwelcome intrusions to some. Few people long for heaven. (pg. 158).
John MacArthur
The principles of earth are the same law that governs heaven
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The Extension Of God’s Glory Throughout The Earth Is To Fill The Atmosphere Of Heaven
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The Glory Of God On Earth Demonstrate The Uniqueness Of Heaven
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To live a life of heaven on earth is a personal discovery
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God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven
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Wherever the kingdom of God extends to, the atmosphere of heaven is established
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Be an embodiment of the petition, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven
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The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven
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You are created to reflect heaven on earth
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To be filled with bliss and harmony on earth is a reflection of heaven order
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He who extend heaven’s reign to the whole earth is fulfilling God’s intention
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Heaven on earth is a function of the presence of God
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