Quotes by Pastors - Page 5

Only ignorance makes us put up with defeat, then instead of being exalted we are humiliated
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
National transformation is also attainable through the simple principle of Truth and Honesty
Sunday Adelaja
Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.
Timothy J. Keller
People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase
Sunday Adelaja
The earth therefore is not Gods jurisdiction. It is man’ jurisdiction.
Sunday Adelaja
The earth is man’s domain.
Sunday Adelaja
Tragically though, it is that same life that is often least treasured or valued by men who possess it.
Sunday Adelaja
It is foolish to play with God, he is not a man, God’s laws do not change and His word is steadfast
Sunday Adelaja
It is only the man that delays his gratification that is a man indeed.
Sunday Adelaja
If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative
Sunday Adelaja
Skills and proficiency is the greatest miracle that a man needs.
Sunday Adelaja
Delayed gratification is what makes a man.
Sunday Adelaja
A principled man is he whose response to life is outstanding
Sunday Adelaja
For a man to subdue a man is to defile God’s purpose
Sunday Adelaja
An angry leader is a scared leader or a hurt leader or a frustrated leader but most of all they are a vulnerable leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is the escapist mentality becomes prevalent, giving birth to the syndrome of economic refugees.
Sunday Adelaja
I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK.
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly great, she must first identify her national values, enumerate her virtues and formulate her value system. But the most tasking of all these is to develop a culture in her people, that will best represent the proclaimed value systems of the nation.
Sunday Adelaja
What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong
Sunday Adelaja
Your victory depends on how much you believe in God’s power
Sunday Adelaja
Pray not only for your disciples but for all who believes in you
Sunday Adelaja
From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.
Sunday Adelaja
Fruitfulness is impossible without action.
Sunday Adelaja
I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: something that bothers you so deeply, you're moved from complacency to action.
Craig Groeschel
Often the devil wants to distract us from our goal, to make us passive and neutralize our actions
Sunday Adelaja
Understanding of divine truths preserves and protects a man in any situation.
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer
Sunday Adelaja
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
It appears that the paradigm of the modern Church has mainly been based on some fragments of the truth rather than the comprehensive totality of understanding God and His Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.
Sunday Adelaja
We must clean our national psyche from all manifestation of evil, be it kidnapping, militancy, insurgency, murders or assassinations.
Sunday Adelaja
Evil comes from all source of gospel that tells people that you could be rich and wealthy without doing the hard work
Sunday Adelaja
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
Sunday Adelaja
With every calling comes the anointing you need to be able to stand firm in the situations that you will have to face
Sunday Adelaja
You’re actually fulfilling your calling by going to work and giving your best.
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice concerning injustice
Sunday Adelaja
I’m fulfilling my calling when I seek to uphold righteousness in all spheres of life
Sunday Adelaja
The way the early Protestants taught on the other hand is that everybody is a full time minister in their various places of work. They went to the extent of saying, your job, profession, occupation is your calling
Sunday Adelaja
If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.
Craig Groeschel
No one can fulfill the calling to extend the reign of love alone
Sunday Adelaja
Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.
Sunday Adelaja
If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.
Timothy J. Keller
We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that. By depicting a Samaritan helping a Jew, Jesus could not have found a more forceful way to say that anyone at all in need - regardless of race, politics, class, and religion - is your neighbour. Not everyone is your brother or sister in faith, but everyone is your neighbour, and you must love your neighbour.
Timothy J. Keller
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
When you come to know God personally and He becomes your close Friend, you will live an easy and fulfilled life.
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
If God had not grievance to all, we will not have survived up to the time we repented
Sunday Adelaja
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