Quotes by Pastors - Page 54

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.
Randy Alcorn
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
Randy Alcorn
In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.
Randy Alcorn
The opportunities for using our financial resources to spread the gospel and strengthen the church all over the world are greater than they've ever been. As God raised up Esther for just such a time as hers, I'm convinced he's raise us up, with all our wealth, to help fulfill the great commission. The question is, what are we doing with that money? Our job is to make sure it gets to his intended recipients.
Randy Alcorn
Here's a scary thought: What if God called you to give beyond your comfort level? Would you be afraid? Would you try to explain it away or dismiss it as impractical? And in the process, would you miss out on a harvest opportunity for which God had explicitly prospered you in the first place?
Andy Stanley
If we were to gain God's perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.
Randy Alcorn
Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.
Randy Alcorn
Why ask for your daily bread when you own the bakery?
Randy Alcorn
Wealth can only be multiplied through work.
Sunday Adelaja
In order to get wealth, knowledge is needed.
Sunday Adelaja
You should not strive for your own personal wealth but for the prosperity of the Kingdom ofGod.
Sunday Adelaja
The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving.
Sunday Adelaja
The wealth that we acquire with God’s help will not become a source of tears if it belongs to God.
Sunday Adelaja
We must stop calling the looting of our national wealth, a share in the national cake.
Sunday Adelaja
I have come to discover that the reason why they are so wealthy and prosperous is not because they were lying on the couch all day.
Sunday Adelaja
Focus means being diligent. Diligence always leads to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
The knowledge of God gives a person the opportunity to not be a slave to wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
The citizens of the land, the peoples of the nation must be made strong in their convictions of these values. These values and virtues must become the wealth of the people, they must become their pride. They must be reflected in their lifestyle, in their film and movie industries. This value system must be ingrained in their educational system. They must be proclaimed in their pulpits. Homes and families must be built on the wealth of these virtues.
Sunday Adelaja
The percentage of the citizenry that embrace and identify with the nation’s virtues, with the nation’s value system, determine the true wealth of that nation
Sunday Adelaja
Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of a nation
Sunday Adelaja
The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources.
Sunday Adelaja
Our people must once again realize that it is only hard work and excellence that leads to wealth creation.
Sunday Adelaja
The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.
Sunday Adelaja
What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given.
Sunday Adelaja
Work therefore is designed to release all this abundance of wealth hidden inside everything.
Sunday Adelaja
Material wealth alone is not enough to build a great nation.
Sunday Adelaja
Everybody that is born on the surface of this earth, is wealthy. That wealth is the wealth of time.
Sunday Adelaja
Time is the ultimate wealth.
Sunday Adelaja
Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.
Sunday Adelaja
The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth.
Sunday Adelaja
We are all endowed with wealth of time equally
Sunday Adelaja
The wealth God has given to everyman is the wealth of TIME.
Sunday Adelaja
So in actual fact every human being is equally wealthy according to God’s divine Providence
Sunday Adelaja
Time is exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each and every one of us on a daily basis
Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly wealthy, it must possess a wealth of virtues.
Sunday Adelaja
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time. Moreover, these material wealth don’t just come and go, they come to stay as long as the virtues remain in the fabric of the nation
Sunday Adelaja
If we want our nations to be truly great we must lay less emphasis on material wealth, natural resources or even human resources.
Sunday Adelaja
As a nation, develop your wealth of virtues and watch yourself live better than most countries who brag themselves in their virtues of natural wealth
Sunday Adelaja
Dedication to God will make you like a magnet in your sphere of influence
Sunday Adelaja
Rich and wealth comes to a man only through diligence
Sunday Adelaja
Only diligence will give you wealth
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Wealth and riches are not evil, it is having love for wealth and riches that is evil
Sunday Adelaja
When you invest your life, you don’t lose it.
Sunday Adelaja
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich
Charles Wagner
Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions.
Sunday Adelaja
God allows us, through thoughts, ideas, words and revelations, to imagine things in ourconscious mind that He has already created in the invisible spirit realm.
Sunday Adelaja
There are two causes for "burning": passionate desires coming from our thoughts, and flirting.
Sunday Adelaja
It must be noted however, that there were other Europeans that travelled to other parts of the earth, but because they did not take with them the same Protestant culture of dignity of labour, they did not record the same level of success, growth and development as the early Protestant immigrants had done.
Sunday Adelaja
The sense of fulfillment is often hidden in acts of kindness
Todd Stocker
Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.
W. Phillip Keller
We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
John Ortberg
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 you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.
Andy Stanley
Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
Randy Alcorn
We have the "spotless Lamb of God" bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much that He was willing to reduce Himself to a human egg. The Immaculate Conception was not just about the epitome of love and grace, it was about the willingness of the Son to travel the journey of the human experience.
Don Wilton
The fact is, it is selfish for a church to not want to grow. A church that says, “We’ve got enough people, we’ve got a nice fellowship. Our church is just the right size. We just need to focus on the members we already have.” That church is, in reality, actually saying, “The rest of the world can go to hell. We don’t care.
Rick Warren
Compassion‬ is medicine to a wounded heart. When we show compassion to those who are suffering we preach Jesus in another way.
Paul Gitwaza
Compassion brings people together.
Sunday Adelaja
Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That’s not the small print—that’s a guarantee.
Kyle Idleman