Quotes by Pastors - Page 5

I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me through. I would be like a taxpayer with rights. I would have done my duty and now I would deserve a certain quality of life. But if it is really true that I am a sinner saved by sheer grace -- at God's infinite cost -- then there's nothing he cannot ask of me.
Timothy J. Keller
If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.
Craig Groeschel
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
Sunday Adelaja
Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.
Sunday Adelaja
If you go to anybody and ask them, what is your dream life? They would say I want to sit by the TV all day. I want to play with my friends all day and they think that is the best way to spend their lives. They do not know that what they have just listed is not living life but wasting life.
Sunday Adelaja
Friends, since when has irresponsibility become a Nigerian factor?
Sunday Adelaja
My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
Craig Groeschel
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.
Craig Groeschel
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
Sunday Adelaja
God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots
Gary Rohrmayer
The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!
Paul Gitwaza
The destiny of the country depends on the actions and the position of His messengers
Sunday Adelaja
Your destiny will be fulfilled as you extend kingdom principles and lifestyle on earth
Sunday Adelaja
To fulfil destiny is to bring the whole earth under the principles of God’s kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
Discovering your identity is the key to fulfilling your destiny
Sunday Adelaja
Although we, as Christians, are living in Sodom, we are not to become citizens of Sodom. . The story of Sodom is God's reminder to the modern world
Sunday Adelaja
Some waste away their lives by drinking, partying or by simply having fun and living for pleasure.
Sunday Adelaja
The deeper the illustration the strengthened the value
Sunday Adelaja
When Satan begins to particularly attack to persecute you, it should be a sign of your strength
Sunday Adelaja
If you do not have any problems, it means you have stopped being of interest to the devil; you are not dangerous to him
Sunday Adelaja
Can you see the pictures before you on how to intervene on behalf of the oppressed? Are you thinking of what to do to the disenfranchised of your society? Do you notice the abused of your society? Can you see the afflicted that are crying for that justice every day? What of those who are been maltreated on daily basis, do you think they need that justice? Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you, can you serve them justice?
Sunday Adelaja
Unfortunately the leading proponent of ignorance in our society has become the very same institution that was created to fight it - The Church.
Sunday Adelaja
We need to start preparing ourselves for the changes we are anticipating in our society
Sunday Adelaja
Everyone has his sphere of influence or territory in a society, which is a place where he is called to bring God’s presence
Sunday Adelaja
A society that lives by worldly principles is slowly moving towards a global crisis in all areas
Sunday Adelaja
The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history
Sunday Adelaja
The parent is the child's guide. This shepherding process helps a child to understand himself and the world in which he lives. The parent shepherds a child to assess himself and his responses. He shepherds the child to understand not just the "what" of the child's actions, but also the "why." As the shepherd, you want to help your child understand himself as a creature made by and for God. You cannot show him these things merely by instruction; you must lead him on a path of discovery. You must shepherd his thoughts, helping him to learn discernment and wisdom.
Tedd Tripp
As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child's life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do not exercise rule over your jurisdiction, but over God's. You act at his command. You discharge a duty that he has given. You may not try to shape the lives of your children as pleases you, but as pleases him. All you do in your task as parents must be done from this point of view. You must undertake all your instruction, your care and nurture, your correction and discipline, because God has called you to. ... If you are God's agent in this task of providing essential training and instruction of the Lord, then you, too, are a person under authority. You and your child are in the same boat. You are both under God's authority. You have different roles, but the same Master.
Tedd Tripp
No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us
Sunday Adelaja
Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?
Sunday Adelaja
Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing.
Sunday Adelaja
When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy
Sunday Adelaja
Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality
Sunday Adelaja
God’s passion is to increase and multiply.
Sunday Adelaja
Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
Craig Groeschel
It is the passion of God that empowers to impact lives
Sunday Adelaja
The world will always try to lure us away so that it can infect us with sin.
Sunday Adelaja
God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him
Sunday Adelaja
If the teachings of the early Christians changed Rome and the entire Roman Empire, we can’t point to any great change that the teachings coming from our pulpits today are producing upon our world in general
Sunday Adelaja
Up to 90% of all inventions of the world comes from the Protestant world
Sunday Adelaja
Always feel obligated to help people and carter for more needs of people so as to be more relevant to the world
Sunday Adelaja
I believe that for Nigeria and other third world countries to truly become developed, we must change the culture and attitude of our people towards work
Sunday Adelaja
It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst person in the world. You were snared. You were hooked. But you don't have to stay that way. Now is the time to deal with the shackles that keep you enslaved. Today you can leave the prison that sexual immorality has created from your past mistakes. Hear your Father's voice call out to you above the noisy clamor of our culture. He says, "I love you. You're free to go now. Sexual sin has no hold on you.
Craig Groeschel
Slavery and indecisiveness are characteristics of most Christians of the world
Sunday Adelaja
If you are a follower of Jesus Christ , then the world around you will also be subdued
Sunday Adelaja
Christ Is The Lamb Slain From The Foundation Of The World
Sunday Adelaja
There is a mighty force, energy and ability inside us that has not yet been noticed by the world
Sunday Adelaja
There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POWER but by sending his Son
Sunday Adelaja
When it seems there is no way out, it indicates that God wants to manifest His power and glory
Sunday Adelaja
To Influence Every Sphere Of Society Is To Engage The Power Of The Gospel
Sunday Adelaja
Lust for power, greed, false religions reign today because of lack of vision and passion to redeem nations
Sunday Adelaja
Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life’s endeavour.
Sunday Adelaja
Judgment refers to a sound mind. When there is no sound mind in a society, people in that society don’t think straight. They are perverted in their thoughts
Sunday Adelaja
It is easier to be a mere performer and not to make serious decisions, to live with an assistance of someone else’s mind and obey someone else’s command when you are a person of victim mentality
Sunday Adelaja
It is obvious that the prevalent Christian world-view is not a Kingdom world-view
Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian should be a faithful minister and steward of God
Sunday Adelaja
When Christian leaders dare to invade with authority the devil’s domain with kingdom attitude, people listen
Sunday Adelaja
If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country
Sunday Adelaja
A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something
Sunday Adelaja
Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery, established through kidnapping, could not be squared with biblical teaching either in the Old Testament or the New.
Timothy J. Keller