Quotes by Pastors - Page 43

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.
Calvin Miller
Using a combination of history, common sense, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, every leader can generally predict the way things will go.
Dag Heward-Mills
Probably one of the most surprising discoveries I've made while studying the Bible is that God does not condone religion. It's a consistent theme throughout scripture. Religion is man's external effort to please God. But God doesn't care about all my efforts to get it right. He wants more, something far greater.
Chris Hodges
A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.
James MacDonald
If we are to use the Bible effectively, then we must use it the way God wrote it – in narrative form. Our team rejects the notion that the Bible is simply an encyclopedia of disconnected Bible verses. God's Word is less like a cookbook and more like a novel.
James MacDonald
All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.
James MacDonald
God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.
James MacDonald
God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
David Platt
The Bible is instruction, it is light, it is the Word of God that predicts future events, warns of dangers and holds us back from falling and getting hurt.
Sunday Adelaja
The less you obey the Word of God, the more you distance yourself from God in the spiritual realm
Sunday Adelaja
The Bible is the voice of God, calling out to everyone.
Sunday Adelaja
The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible.
Sunday Adelaja
Even Satan can quote scripture out of context why are we surprised when men do it.
Gary Rohrmayer
Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings
Paul Gitwaza
We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
Eugene H. Peterson
The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.
Max Lucado
You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures' authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.
Kevin DeYoung
One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.
Mike Bickle
What we need today is men who take a stand on the Word of God and stop trying to fit in or preach a socially acceptable Gospel ...We need men like Caleb, when they see the giants of Atheism, Political Correctness, Social Pressure to alter the Bible and a polluted education system and say "we are well able to overcome it.
Pastor Steve Bainbridge
Unfortunately, preachers who distort God's Word are all too common today. Sometimes this springs from a sincere desire to soften hard hearts, but hearts aren't changed by compromise.
Alistair Begg
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd!
Max Lucado
If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.
Max Lucado
…Take every word as spoken to yourself, with this essential anchor in place: Seek to understand first how God’s words fell on the original hearers, and how they relate to Jesus’ person and work, and then bring them home to yourself.
David Mathis
The Bible is gloriously for us, but it is not mainly about us.
David Mathis
When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.
F.B. Meyer
The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.
Paul David Tripp
The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
Judah Smith
The Bible is a supernatural book and can be understood only by supernatural aid.
A.W. Tozer
The Holy Spirit doesn't need to equip you for what you're not going to do, so if you're in rebellion against Jesus and refusing His right to be Lord, He doesn't need to send the Holy Spirit to equip you for service. And, tragically, you miss out on the joy that He brings. So let the Holy Spirit deal with anything that's keeping you from obeying Christ.
Henry T. Blackaby
Will God ever ask you to do something you are not able to do? The answer is yes--all the time! It must be that way, for God's glory and kingdom. If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory. He wants to reveal Himself to a watching world.
Henry T. Blackaby
If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.
Mark Driscoll
We've taken the lifeblood out of Christianity and put Kool-Aid in its place so that it tastes better to the crowds, and the consequences are catastrophic. ~Follow Me, pg. 7
David Platt
If you please God, it does not matter whom you displease. And if you displease Him, it does not matter whom you please.
Steven J. Lawson
God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.
Colin S. Smith
The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one’s being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.
Steven J. Lawson
Generosity is not measured by how much we give away. Generosity is measured by how much we keep for ourselves.
John Weece
We know the inner call to lay down our lives for one another because He laid down His life for us. What a powerful death! The cross ransoms, the cross liberates, the cross transforms!
C.J. Mahaney
Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us.
Randy Alcorn
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.
Mark Batterson
Worldliness is not so much what we do, it's what we want to do. It's an issue of the heart.
Britt Merrick
God will sometimes test us in regard to what we value highly to make sure that we value Him most.
Britt Merrick
It's not about you.
Dr. Rick Warren
Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day. It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last. When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly.
Sunday Adelaja
Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.
Mark Buchanan
Silence and indifference would not take you anywhere at the end of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.
A.W. Tozer
Sometimes, God’s silence is a challenge for us to act
Sunday Adelaja
Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.
Craig Groeschel
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
Deceptions and lies reign in a country where focus is on messages of miracles and wonders
Sunday Adelaja
We often agree with the devil’s lies and support his opinion about us by our actions
Sunday Adelaja
The ability of extension lies in responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
Discipling our children is not about teaching them to behave in a way that won’t embarrass us. We’re working toward something much more important than that. We’re actually raising our children with a view toward leading them to trust and to follow Christ.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
The greatest source of security our children have in this world is a God-honoring, Christ-centered marriage between their parents.
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
Author has developed a routine of daily emotional debriefing with his kids as he tucks them in at night. To encourage the habit of keeping uncluttered, open heart, he starts with basic questions asking whether anyone has hurt them or made them angry to help them process at an age-appropriate depth. As they mature, he will add questions.
Andy Stanley
The key is to understand that our children don't belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be limited by our own vision. I am a finite, sinful, selfish man. Why would I want to plan out my children's future when I can entrust them to the infinite, omnipotent, immutable, sovereign Lord of the universe? I don't want to tell God what to do with my children—I want Him to tell me!
Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.
Tony Evans
Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.
Andy Stanley
The only safe guide is the Bible. It is the revelation of a God who has infinite knowledge and can therefore give you absolute truth. God has given you a revelation that is robust and complete. It presents an accurate and comprehensive picture of children, parents, family life, values, training, nurture, and discipline - all you need to be equipped for the task of parenting.
Tedd Tripp
If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.
John S.C. Abbott