Quotes by Pastors - Page 44

Many parents lack a biblical view of discipline. They tend to think of discipline as revenge - getting even with the children for what they did. Hebrews 12 makes it clear that discipline is not punitive, but corrective. Hebrews 12 calls discipline a word of encouragement that addresses sons. It says discipline is a sign of God's identification with us as our Father. God disciplines us for our good that we might share in his holiness. It says that while discipline is not pleasant, but painful, it yields a harvest of righteousness and peace. Rather than being something to balance love, it is the deepest expression of love.
Tedd Tripp
You can't judge your parenting by the choices of your kids.
Todd Stocker
We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.
John S.C. Abbott
I used to have six theories and no kids. Now I have six kids and no theories.
Kevin DeYoung
Your love, not your worry, is the most valuable thing any of us can give our children.
Jason E. Royle
Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.
Sunday Adelaja
The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people.
Sunday Adelaja
The mountain of ignorance must be pulled down.
Sunday Adelaja
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life
Sunday Adelaja
To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life.
Sunday Adelaja
Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life.
Sunday Adelaja
Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God
Sunday Adelaja
This mountain must come down, the mountain of ignorance has to be brought down
Sunday Adelaja
Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated
Sunday Adelaja
Pastors uses peoples ignorance to spread their deception.
Sunday Adelaja
Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself
Sunday Adelaja
Our ignorance of the meaning of the existence of one or another creation does not mean they are meaningless
Sunday Adelaja
Lot of people do not realize that God cares for them and is able to fulfill His promises
Sunday Adelaja
Christians don't tell lies they just go to church and sing them.
A.W. Tozer
We are only as sick as our secrets.
Rob Bell
One of the secrets a nation can unlock to have material wealth is, having a leader who will take an uncompromising stand to establish truth and honesty as a rule of building the nation
Sunday Adelaja
There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
One of the greatest indicators of how much truth and honesty is in a country, is easily seen by observing how people drive around the city. What is their attitude to the rules of road safety? What is their attitude towards other commuters? Do they try to beat the system by all means? Do they try to get their way by hook or by crook, or they follow the rules? That is also part of corruption!
Sunday Adelaja
Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
I believe that without strict enforcement of penalties for any offence violating the principles of truth and honesty, Nigeria and Africa will not be able to move from our present state of underdevelopment into civilization.
Sunday Adelaja
True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.
Sunday Adelaja
The key challenge facing us today is to successfully transmit into daily and everyday lifestyle the principle of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
Truth is a fundamental principle that is needed for any form of building or construction. So also is honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
Truth and honesty are some of the most powerful principles to developing a nation.
Sunday Adelaja
When the economy of a country is based fundamentally on the principles of truth and honesty, that nation experiences economic stability.
Sunday Adelaja
It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Many people would fight against the idea that they are corrupt. While in the real sense, they are corrupt because they don’t live by the principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
A country cannot change, be transformed or developed as long as there is no truth and honesty as an everyday principle among the citizens of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, there must be numerous movements championing the cause for truth and honesty in every aspect of our daily affairs.
Sunday Adelaja
When truth and honesty is absent in the nation, it relates not just to the politicians.
Sunday Adelaja
Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.
Wayde Goodall
The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
Todd Stocker
A surrendered heart leads to greatness. A stubborn heart leads to struggle.
Todd Stocker
Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.
Sunday Adelaja
Great leaders are teachable leaders.
Gary Rohrmayer
If the churches, mosques and other religious centres could come together to embrace a nation’s value system, and then set out to disciple the nation in these values and virtues, then the greatness of such a nation is inevitable.
Sunday Adelaja
An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values
Sunday Adelaja
God connects us with those who inspire us and connect us to those whom we can inspire to greatness
Sunday Adelaja
Fill your life with love and you will be healthy, young, beautiful and full of energy and strength.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to be patient to wait for the beautiful beginning of a new day
Sunday Adelaja
God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.
Craig Groeschel
Even God does not call every human a man. There are some who have not managed to attain the height of those who God refers to as men. They might be giving birth, eating and drinking, having fun, but yet, when they don’t live for what they were created for, they remain biomasses.
Sunday Adelaja
The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.
Sunday Adelaja
Human resources could be purchased and sold but not time.
Sunday Adelaja
Humans could be termed as biomasses when they don’t fully put into use their human qualifications.
Sunday Adelaja
A human is just a human, but a human together with God is a super-human
Sunday Adelaja
Negative emotions impact the human psyche
Sunday Adelaja
The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential
Sunday Adelaja
The popular concept–that we should each determine our own morality–is based on the belief that the spiritual realm is nothing at all like the rest of the world. Does anyone really believe that? For many years after each of the morning and evening Sunday services I remained in the auditorium for another hour to field questions. Hundreds of people stayed for the give-and-take discussions. One of the most frequent statements I heard was that 'Every person has to define right and wrong for him- or herself.' I always responded to the speakers by asking, 'Is there anyone in the world right now doing things you believe they should stop doing no matter what they personally believe about the correctness of their behavior?' They would invariable say, 'Yes, of course.' Then I would ask, “Doesn’t that mean that you do believe there is some kind of moral reality that is "there" that is not defined by us, that must be abided by regardless of what a person feels or thinks?' Almost always, the response to that question was silence, either a thoughtful or a grumpy one.
Timothy J. Keller
As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God.
A.W. Tozer
Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.
Timothy J. Keller
Our Western society is so deeply divided between these two approaches (moralism, self-discovery) that hardly anyone can conceive of any other way to live. If you criticize or distance yourself from one, everyone assumes you have chosen to follow the other, because each of these approaches tends to divide the whole world into two basic groups. The moral conformists say: "the immoral people -- the people who 'do their own thing' -- are the problem with the world, and moral people are the solution." The advocates of self-discovery say: "The bigoted peole -- the people who say, 'We have the Truth' -- are the problem with the world, and progressive people are the solution.
Timothy J. Keller
Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it's to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do not have a moral agenda; we have a redemptive agenda. We can't reform the kingdom of darkness that Satan rules.
John F. MacArthur Jr.