Quotes by Pastors - Page 50

Love says, "I'm with you, let's deal with it.
Chip Ingram
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
Chip Ingram
Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...
Gary Rohrmayer
Stop doing what everybody is saying and invest in personal growth.
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Look for principles and virtues that will help you grow bigger from inside.
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People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.
Gordon MacDonald
When you don’t crave increase, you become a mystery
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When you live by the demands and supply of life, Life stops being a mystery to you
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I had escaped the snare of certitude that I welcomed so avidly at first and entered, via the name of Jesus, the wide and comprehensive company of Jesus.
Eugene H. Peterson
The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Eugene H. Peterson
To understand the new birth is to have a revelation of its mystery
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God’s desire is to reveal Himself to everyone, yet He will manifest Himself only to those who love Him.
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If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work.
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Increase is a natural desire
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Your desire for increase is a sign that we are alive
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Increase must become your natural desire
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God desires to use every believer to spread his kingdom everywhere in a grand manner.
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If you are a believer you are not supposed to begin to convince God to use you. God already desires to use you.
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God so much desires to use you that he isn't thinking of using you just anyhow or somehow.
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God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.
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God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability.
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God desires to use you to the best of your to the best of your potentials.
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The water of such a nation (living godly) will not fail. Talking of harmony between the people of the land and nature. Natural catastrophes and disasters shall be far from such a people. There shall be rain in its time, sun in its time. Nature will respond adequately to the needs and desires of such a people.
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Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.
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Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation.
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Why are we so unconcerned with the great desire of God’s heart?
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God desires to teach us how to submit to others and how to take the second place
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God’s desire is that Christians would not just be believers in word but He wants everyone who looks at us to see him in us
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God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil
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The desire of God is an expression of his need
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To fulfil the insatiable desire of God is to fit in into his need
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For your heart to be filled with God’s love is to forgive easily
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To be a part of the kingdom you need to desire it enough to search it out
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We might like to think of ourselves as autonomous beings who get to decide who we are going to be, but we are likely much more malleable than we think. We are often defined by the structure that keeps us captive. In some ways our desires are so socially constructed that they can't rightfully be called our own.
Debbie Blue
Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing?
Paul David Tripp
When the mouth cries, I want to see God, the heart has reached its finest moment. Once we have sought and seen God, all other things have a way of finding us.
Gayle D. Erwin
Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
Success is often followed by failure. Yesterday's victory doesn't win today's battle.
Wayde Goodall
The enemy doesn't warn its target. Emergencies do not make appointments, and the greatest battles of life are often surprises.
Wayde Goodall
The best defense is great offense. . .We fight through our mistakes and failures by maximizing our forward motion.
Wayde Goodall
It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise
Todd Stocker
If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.
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The reason why a person does not have success can be found inside him. It is his worldview, conscience, and perception of life
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It is better to admit your failure than to live in self deception.
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A lack of planning leads to failure.
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God didn’t call you to be a failure. He called you to be a success
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Lack of commitment — is the main reason for failure among Christian leaders
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Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon.
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Success belong to the man who refuses to fair failure.
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Failure is only a step towards success.
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There is no failure in life, there are only those who don`t know how to succeed.
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Your ability to see failure as a necessary stepping stone directly correlates with your ability to dream bigger and dream better.
Mark Batterson
I want to go after dreams that are destined to fail without diving intervention.
Mark Batterson
We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.
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Unbelief loves to paint the bleakest picture it can. It loves to get us mumbling to ourselves, I'm not going to make it. I just know this is going to turn out terrible. The future is bound to crash on me.Let me tell you that God, who began a good work in you, is not about to stop now. After sending his Son to die for your sins, after saving you at such incredible cost, why would he let you fail now?
Jim Cymbala
The failure of the church is a result of not equipping believers with mindset to extend God’s kingdom
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You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.
Joel Osteen
The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.
Rob Bell
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.
Charles F. Stanley
It will end in praise, if you are not singing praises, it hasn't ended.
Flo Falayi