Quotes by Pastors - Page 42

Where your flesh is in front, your future is behind.
Paul Enenche
Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
Your character determines how many followers you will have.
Sunday Adelaja
The virtues of character, behavioural patterns determine how great a nation and people are.
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Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.
Matt Chandler
The sort of people that we become is, in large part, determined by the voices that we choose to listen to. Truly, we do not have a choice of listening versus not listening. We all obey certain voices, and thus the question is not “Will I listen?” but “Which voices will I listen to?” But it is not only a matter of choosing to listen to good voices over bad ones. If only it were as simple as the proverbial whispering angel and devil on our shoulders. It is also a matter of whether we will choose to listen to different voices, voices that don’t sound the same as our own. Will we listen to the voices of different cultures, ethnicities, backgrounds and beliefs? Will we listen to the voices that unsettle us and might make us feel anxious or guilty? If we choose to listen only to voices that echo our own, we will be limited in our growth and stunted in our spirituality. Choosing to tune in to only one or two stations may be comfortable, but it is not transformative. The voices we want to hear are not always the same as the voices we need to hear.
Adam McHugh
We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
Craig Groeschel
Love is not merely an attribute of God’s character but the essence of his being
Sunday Adelaja
The virtues of your character is more important the public opinion.
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The content in heavenly order will manifest only when reflected
Sunday Adelaja
Embody the character of the kingdom and it will manifest
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You live out the character of he whom love is immersed in you
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Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear.
Sunday Adelaja
Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being.
Sunday Adelaja
What you express in your character is what your lifestyle crowns
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It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin
Donnie McClurkin
A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.
John Maxwell
We always have reason to rejoice and never have reason to complain.
Stephen Altrogge
But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.
Paul David Tripp
Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain.
A.W. Tozer
For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.
Jeff Leake
The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.
Steven J. Lawson
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
Max Lucado
For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living
Paul David Tripp
The moment you, as a spiritual person, stop growing, you simply die. Your ministry will grow as a consequence of your dedication, faithfulness and persistent desire to move on
Sunday Adelaja
When is a train most free? Is it when it goes bouncing across the field off the track? No. It is free only when it is confined (if you will) to the track. Then it runs smoothly and efficiently, because that was the way that its maker intended for it to run. It needs to be on the track, structured by the track, to run properly. You too need to be on the track. God's track is found in God's Word.
Jay E. Adams
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. Many people will pray when they are required by cultural or social circumstances. Those with a genuinely lived relationship with God as Father, however, will inwardly want to pray and therefore will pray even though nothing on the outside is pressing them to do so. They pursue it even during times of spiritual dryness, when there is no social or experiential payoff.
Timothy J. Keller
After coming to God and being revived spiritually, every person should grow spiritually
Sunday Adelaja
When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.
Henry T. Blackaby
Discipline creates ways for the lovers of it.
Sunday Adelaja
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.
W. Phillip Keller
Only the one who recognizes his power in Jesus Christ can build a strong team.
Sunday Adelaja
Often the question of, "Who am I?" should be answered with, "Whose am I?
Matt Chandler
To know your purpose, you have to find yourself
Sunday Adelaja
You are a gift to the entire planet earth
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You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are
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Until you have answered the question “Who am I” you will not be capable of living your own life
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The question “who am I” is the first question that every person should ask himself
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If you don’t know who you are, you will be someone else
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If we don’t know who we are, we conceal our true selves and wear the image of others
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If we don’t know who we are, we conceal our true selves and bear their brand
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If you don’t have your own identity, you will adopt the brand of another
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The value of human beings does not consist in their appearance
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If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe
Sunday Adelaja
Ignorantly Violate the Laws of Universe Brings Destructive Result to Individual Lives
Sunday Adelaja
To Outline Natural Limitations Of The Universe Is To Engage Mathematical Laws
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The basic structure of the universe is balanced on a razor’s edge for life to exist
Sunday Adelaja
Without love even the most radical devotion to God is of no value to Him. Let me make sure that sinks in… You can gain all the spiritual gifts in the world. You can take the most radical steps of obedience. You can share every meal with the homeless in your city. You can memorize the book of Leviticus. You can pray each morning for four hours like Martin Luther. But if what you do does not flow out of a heart of love - a heart that does those things because it genuinely desires to do them - it is ultimately worthless to God.
J.D. Greear
The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to show them their blindness, narrowness, and self righteousness, and how these things are destroying both their own souls and the lives of the people around them.
Timothy J. Keller
He is the Creator and the sustainer of all things. He is the unchanging, self-existent God, and that means that He depends on nobody. He is neither helped by our faith nor hindered by our unbelief.
Colin S. Smith
Human life is created in God's image, and that makes it sacred.
Colin S. Smith
Sin is a power; wherever it is given room, it will grow in strength, and it will take you where you do not want to go.
Colin S. Smith
The Bible is different because it is the Word of God, by which He speaks to me. Disagreeing with the Bible would be disagreeing with God. So when I read the Bible I want to place myself ‘under’ it. I want to receive the Scripture in such a way that over time, my thinking, feeling, choosing, believing and behaving will be molded by the Word God is speaking into my life. I don’t want to critique the Scriptures; I want them to critique me and change me.
Colin S. Smith
Explaining temptation by saying “God is testing me” or “Satan is attacking me” positions “me” either as the victim, if I am defeated, or the hero, if I prevail. But confessing that “My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.
Colin S. Smith
The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).
Colin S. Smith
Only God can write a story that resonates not just in the power of the imagination or the heart or the mind, but in the very soul; only God can write a story that brings dead things to life.
Jared C. Wilson
If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
Colin S. Smith
In serving as a pastor for over thirty years, I have seen some remarkable transformations and I’ve seen some big disappointments. I have two observations. First, where there has been lasting change, the common factor, in every case, is that the Word of God has had a significant entrance into the person’s life. Second, where godly change has failed to get started, or has slowly unraveled, the common factor, in every case, is that change has been attempted without significant engagement in the Scriptures.
Colin S. Smith
The Bible is a whole series of highways, all leading toward God. And when the text has been illuminated and the believer of the text knows that God is the end toward which he is moving, then that man has real faith.
A.W. Tozer
Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.
Jared C. Wilson