Quotes by Pastors - Page 49

In order for grace to truly be grace, it has to extend to absolutely everyone, no matter what, no questions, no exceptions. Otherwise we think that somehow, by living a moral life...we've deserved it
Jay Bakker
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.
Max Lucado
But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
Mark Buchanan
God gave us the grace and ability to work, because it is only through work we can resolve national issues.
Sunday Adelaja
The main thing to tell a person when you explain how to become righteous is to announce to him for free grace of God, concealing nothing, saying none other than what God says in the Gospel. Build a fence around Mount Sinai, but not around Golgotha ,because at Golgotha all God's wrath was appeased.
C.F.W. Walther
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior
Timothy J. Keller
It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.
Tullian Tchividjian
We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.
Tullian Tchividjian
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning
Tullian Tchividjian
One-way love is rare, though, and it always comes as a surprise. Fortunately, the glimpses we receive in relationships are only a foreshadowing of God's love for us. They are like little arrows that point to the very heart of the universe, what Dante called 'the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars,' the love that received its fullest expression in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
Tullian Tchividjian
The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people. Far from being a book full of moral heroes whom we are commanded to emulate, what we discover is that the so-called heroes in the Bible are not really heroes at all. They fall and fail; they make huge mistakes; they get afraid; they're selfish, deceptive, egotistical, and unreliable. The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness.
Tullian Tchividjian
God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.
Tullian Tchividjian
The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)
Tullian Tchividjian
What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.
Tullian Tchividjian
God will give you more than you can handle because it is in your surrender that He gives you your victory!
Todd Stocker
Without God’s help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed
Sunday Adelaja
Grace is loving people for who they are, where they are. It's loving people *before* they change, not just *after* they change. And that grace is the difference between holy and holier-than-thou. Holiness, in its purest form, is irresistible. That's why sinners couldn't be kept away from Jesus. Hypocrisy has the opposite effect. It's as repulsive to the irreligious as the Pharisees' religiosity was to Jesus.
Mark Batterson
You must work for grace and favor to work for you.
Sunday Adelaja
God gives grace to the humble
Sunday Adelaja
Gathering together of believers helps to grow in grace
Sunday Adelaja
It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.
David Mathis
The grace of God cannot be quarantined to individuals.
David Mathis
A pastor struggled for years with sexual addiction, eventually becoming so despondent that hospitalized himself. He joined an inpatient group and was mostly silent as others shared.When he decided not to come one day, the leader found he had fallen back into his addiction the previous night. Against every fiber of his instinct, he came back to the group. He shared how much he despised himself and his hypocritical behavior. When he saw that others wept for him, the weight of the secret that piled on the shame was broken. As Ortberg puts it, the man was able to taste the grace he taught about.
John Ortberg Jr.
You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.
David Wilkerson
I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.
Jud Wilhite
It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.
Judah Smith
Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.
Francis Frangipane
If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?
John F. MacArthur Jr.
When grace moves in... guilt moves out
Max Lucado
Only those who are truly aware of their sin can truly cherish grace.
C.J. Mahaney
Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
Tullian Tchividjian
Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.
Mark Driscoll
The very nature of the gospel is Jesus inviting the disciples on an adventure. To do what they'd never done and go where they'd never gone. Never a dull moment! You cannot follow Jesus and be bored at the same time.
Mark Batterson
Part of discovering the adventure God has designed you for is learning how to frame it or reframe it.
Mark Batterson
You don't have to go looking for adventure. If you follow Jesus, adventure comes looking for you. Jesus didn't carry a cross to Calvary so that we could live a halfway life. He died so that we could come alive in the truest and fullest sense of the word.
Mark Batterson
When you live by the demands and supply of life, it becomes a pleasurable adventure.
Sunday Adelaja
Most poverty is a lack of opportunity.
Adam LiVecchi
The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery.
Sunday Adelaja
A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.
Sunday Adelaja
Poverty must be erased by hard work.
Sunday Adelaja
Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning.
Sunday Adelaja
God desires to free our country from darkness through our active civil position.
Sunday Adelaja
The final aim of any temptation is to bring a person back into the kingdom of darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.
Sunday Adelaja
We have come to love darkness of religion more than seeking for the knowledge of God.
Sunday Adelaja
People who truly serve God actively look for darkness in order to chase darkness away, they run after darkness, they search for darkness in all its ramifications and destructive consequences.
Sunday Adelaja
When I look at the Church today, not just in Africa but worldwide, it seems to me that we have come to love darkness even if we are called Church or some other religious names.
Sunday Adelaja
Darkness, that is, ignorance, limits our visibility.
Sunday Adelaja
Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.
Sunday Adelaja
To be scorned in the public because of your race is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society
Sunday Adelaja
The place where the prince of darkness reigns is a place of humiliation
Sunday Adelaja
The former time is the time of gloom and darkness, but the later time is a time of the redemption and the mercy of God
Sunday Adelaja
When someone says "just saying" what they really mean is, "You would be a colossal idiot to not take my advice." (on Facebook)
Stephen Altrogge
Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.
Joel Osteen
We must heal this terminally ill world with love.
Sunday Adelaja
Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation.
Sunday Adelaja
You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.
Dave Harvey
Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you."Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)
Max Lucado
If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
Chip Ingram
Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
Chip Ingram