Quotes by Pastors - Page 4

The absence of conditions for self-realization in a country, region and community leads to stagnation, social and economic crisis
Sunday Adelaja
A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence
Sunday Adelaja
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
Purpose Erases Deep Hurts
Sunday Adelaja
Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.
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To flee from sin is to retain heaven on earth
Sunday Adelaja
Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God-centered. And when God puts something into you, you can be certain it will come to pass.
Craig Groeschel
Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation.
Sunday Adelaja
I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's still there, just like always, ready to bear-hug you again, just like in the old days.
Craig Groeschel
Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting
Sunday Adelaja
Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP.
Sunday Adelaja
When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!
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It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.
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When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
Sunday Adelaja
We often blame our government for their lack of responsibility, socially and politically. We forget that that is only a result of the societal irresponsibility in general.
Sunday Adelaja
Haman is a symbol of a typical ungodly government representative
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If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
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To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
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Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings
Paul Gitwaza
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.
Sunday Adelaja
This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down
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National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
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Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.
Timothy J. Keller
People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase
Sunday Adelaja
The earth is man’s domain.
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Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
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It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.
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If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative
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Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
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Delayed gratification is what makes a man.
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A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding
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For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
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An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
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From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.
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Fruitfulness is impossible without action.
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I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.
Craig Groeschel
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
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Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
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Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
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We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.
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We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
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With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face
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You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.
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I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
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I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life
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The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
Sunday Adelaja
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
Craig Groeschel
No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone
Sunday Adelaja
Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.
Sunday Adelaja
If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.
Timothy J. Keller
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.
Timothy J. Keller