Quotes by Pastors - Page 38

Love manifests itself in loving attitudes and acts
Sunday Adelaja
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
Rick Warren
The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
Rick Warren
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll
Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves.
Timothy J. Keller
Humility is not just declaring that you are not God. It is deciding daily to not be God.
Darrin Patrick
Confident and courageous leaders have no problems pointing out their own weaknesses and ignorance.
Thom S. Rainer
Self-consciousness isn't just A curse. It is part of THE curse.
Mark Batterson
Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".
Kyle Idleman
If you can grasp those two truths—you are made in His image and dependent on Him—you will discover a great dignity and at the same time a profound humility.
Colin S. Smith
There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and our thoughts. The first thing the Prophet Isaiah said when he saw the living and exalted God was, “Woe is me, I am ruined. For I am a man of unclean lips and I live among a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5). Isaiah was one of the most godly men who ever walked the earth. But seeing God, he sees also, abrupt and stark and grief-making, his own duplicity. Then God does what only God can do: he sears his lips clean (Isaiah 6:6-7). And herein lies our hope: truly seeing God, we truly see ourselves, in all our woe-begotten duplicity; but crying out to God, we are truly and greatly helped.
Mark Buchanan
'Tragedy admires man. Comedy feels a bit sorry for him.' We think we are kings or queens, masters of the universe or at least our own destiny. We forget that a foot may crush us, or that the wind may knock us down. We are not in control. We are subject to gas and sloughing skin and dirty pores. Most of our joints will eventually fail us. We have big brains which we can imagine great things, but we can't really get off the ground. It's like we have wings but we can't fly.
Debbie Blue
The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
James MacDonald
If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.
James MacDonald
Humility Preceeds Glory
Paul Gitwaza
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
Rick Warren
Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us.
Sunday Adelaja
Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.
C.J. Mahaney
We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.
C.J. Mahaney
The only path to real promotion is to humble yourself and make yourself of no reputation and then begin to give yourself to other people and serve them.
Sunday Adelaja
A servant leader can always come down to the level of the one he is serving
Sunday Adelaja
God always exalts the humble.
Sunday Adelaja
True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.
Mark Batterson
Only secure people can serve. Insecure people are always worrying about how they appear to others. They fear exposure of their weaknesses and hide beneath layers of protective pride and pretensions. The more insecure you are, the more you will want people to serve you, and the more you will need their approval.
Rick Warren
I've grown more OK with mystery as I've gotten older.
Matt Chandler
God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.
Matt Chandler
Effective love is rarely efficient.
Kevin DeYoung
Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.
Eugene H. Peterson
The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson
Eugene H. Peterson
Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.
Paul David Tripp
Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.
Matt Chandler
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.
Matt Chandler
I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
Matt Chandler
The Word of God bares weight on all ages always.
Matt Chandler
In other words, we are only proud of being more successful, more intelligent or more good-looking than the next person, and we are in the presence of someone who is more successful, intelligent and good-looking than we are, we lose all pleasure in what we had. That is because we really had no pleasure in it. We were proud of it.
Timothy J. Keller
Humility and brokenness before God is the key to making your body the dwelling place of God
Sunday Adelaja
One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion
Sunday Adelaja
If you suffer some losses, remember that after humility a reward from God will always follow
Sunday Adelaja
If you have the blessings of Abraham in your life, then you should also have his obedience, humility and ability to submit to others
Sunday Adelaja
...all of us are somewhere on a journey to God, and the gap between least and most advanced is infinitely smaller than the gap between the most advanced and God himself.
John Ortberg
Humility is the freedom to stop trying to be what we're not, or pretending to be what we're not, and accepting our 'appropriate smallness.
John Ortberg
Any country that is now humbled and humiliated by darkness will be raised up by God
Sunday Adelaja
Ironic that those most holy are least likely to see themselves that way.
Mark Buchanan
When I look at the clues that indicate the nature of Jesus – born in a barn, questionable parents, spotty ancestry, common name, misdirected announcement, unattractive looks, reared in a bad neighborhood, owning nothing, surrounding himself with unattractive co-workers, and dying a shameful death – I find his whole approach unable to fit into the methods that automatically come to mind when I think about “winning the world.” His whole approach could easily be described as nonthreatening or nonmanipulative. He seemed to lead with weakness in each step of life. He had nothing in the world and everything in God and the Spirit.
Gayle D. Erwin
If there is one single reason why good people turn evil, it is because they fail to recognize God’s ownership over their kingdom, their vocation, their resources, their abilities, and above all their lives.
Erwin W. Lutzer
The chief means of resisting manipulation is humility – knowing who we really are and facing it. You can only serve by love. You can only love by choice. True love cannot be the result of decree, force or manipulation. Jesus always kept his strength to make loving choices. He calls us to make loving choices necessary to be the servant of all." "Humility permits me to own my feelings – and to admit them. Now I'm free to say, ‘I'm angry’. I'm free to admit what I am reacting to. I am free to ask if anger is what the person wanted to produce in me, and to ask for help in changing if my reaction is inappropriate.
Gayle D. Erwin
Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others.
Trevor hammack
...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.
Timothy J. Keller
If a man realizes who he is, he cannot be hurt, humiliated or offended
Sunday Adelaja
To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose
Sunday Adelaja
Purpose Erases Deep Hurts
Sunday Adelaja
Positive attitude toward time management would accelerate our economic development as we have never seen before.
Sunday Adelaja
Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.
Timothy J. Keller
The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.
Timothy J. Keller
As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning," it says, "Behold your God.
J.D. Greear
We tend to believe that God's commands are given to us merely for our own sake. But this is not true. As those created in the image of God, our very nature as image bearers explains the reasons behind God's commands.
Gerald Hiestand
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
Timothy J. Keller
Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.
Dave Harvey
Before we received Christ, we were slaves to sin. But because of Christ’s work on the cross, sin’s power over us has been broken. Satan has no right of ownership or authority over us. He is a defeated foe, but he is committed to keeping us from realizing that. He knows he can block your effectiveness as a Christian if he can deceive you into believing that you are nothing but a product of your past, subject to sin, prone to failure, and controlled by your habits.
Neil T. Anderson
God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.
Peter Scazzero