Quotes by Pastors - Page 56

Jesus' love for you far outweighs your expectations of Him.
Todd Stocker
Because Jesus was forsaken, we are forgiven. Because He was beaten, we are healed. Because He was thirsty, we're awash in the water of life. Because He died, we have an eternal home. No matter how deep our regrets, how searing our conscience, how messy our past, we start each day with a clean slate. All our failures are washed away in His blood.
Robert J. Morgan
...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question."What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again.
Rob Bell
...love people when they least expect it and least deserve it. That is the kind of love Jesus shows to us.
Mark Batterson
...if you can truly surrender to Him, you will do more, be more, experience more. Life will just be more.
Mark Batterson
...if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.
Mark Batterson
Following Jesus is a verb.
Mark Batterson
Working for love is a curse. Working from love is a ministry.
Kris Vallotton
Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love.
Rob Bell
I’d like to propose to you that revelation is not the product of laborious study, but it is the fruit of friendship with God.
Kris Vallotton
our life does not belong to us any more, it is now the life of Jesus Christ that lives in us.
Sunday Adelaja
We became God’s carriers because of the sacrifice of Jesus.
Sunday Adelaja
When Jesus enters a place revival fire begins.
Sunday Adelaja
The truth is, Jesus didn't die for junk.
Kris Vallotton
The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.
Sunday Adelaja
I will not keep quiet until a revolution is started to fight ignorance and superstitions in the church of the lord Jesus Christ and in the nation of my birth.
Sunday Adelaja
To my shame, my nation and the church of the lord Jesus Christ in my continent is covered head to toe in this ignorance.
Sunday Adelaja
I have no doubt that ignorance is the biggest obstacle facing the church of the lord Jesus Christ in this age
Sunday Adelaja
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
Mark Buchanan
If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.
Bill Johnson
it is in seeing and owning that we are crazy and damaged, it is in crying “uncle” to our failed self-reformation projects, it is in recognizing that we are most certainly “so unlike our Christ”—that Christ begins to change us. It is when we become tired of ourselves, weary of our own failed efforts, that Jesus meets us with hope.
Scott Sauls
If Jesus looks too feminine to us, maybe it says more about our understanding of masculinity than it does about a possible conspiracy to feminize the church and men.
Nate Pyle
Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
Because Jesus paid it all, we are free from the need to do it all. Our identity, worth, and value, are not anchored in what we can accomplish but in what Jesus accomplished for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
The hub of Christianity is not 'do something for Jesus.' The hub of Christianity is 'Jesus has done everything for you.' And my fear is that too many people, both inside and outside the church, have heard our pleas for intensified devotion and concluded that the focus of Christian faith is our love for God instead of God's love for us. Don't get me wrong--what we do is important. But it is infinitely less important than what Jesus has done for us.
Tullian Tchividjian
The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.
Max Lucado
She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm going to seize this moment and simply enjoy being with Jesus while I can." Mary made a deliberate choice. She wasn't being lazy and using company as an excuse to get out of helping her sister with chores. She was choosing to focus on what mattered the most.
Craig Groeschel
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
Jesus became flesh to reveal God in His love and kindness
Sunday Adelaja
Each one of us also can become an image or likeness of God if we, like Jesus, the firstborn, give our bodies to him
Sunday Adelaja
We need to regard every problem or situation as an opportunity to be triumphant and celebrate the victory of Jesus in our lives
Sunday Adelaja
...people can go to church every week of their lives and never go all in with Jesus Christ. I'm afraid we've cheapened the gospel by allowing people to buy in without selling out. We've made it too convenient, too comfortable. We've given people just enough Jesus to be bored but not enough to feel the surge of holy adrenaline that courses through your veins when you decide to follow Him no matter what, no matter where, no matter when.
Mark Batterson
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
Craig Groeschel
For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.
Craig Groeschel
To refuse Jesus as the messiah is to be a hypocrite
Sunday Adelaja
God wants the simplicity and accessibility of Jesus Christ to be your main quality
Sunday Adelaja
Nothing should enslave you. Be dependent only on one person – Jesus Christ
Sunday Adelaja
The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by either moralism or relativism.
Timothy J. Keller
Want to know the coolest thing about the coming? Not that the One who played marbles with the stars gave it up to play marbles with marbles. Or that the One who hung the galaxies gave it up to hang doorjambs to the displeasure of a cranky client who wanted everything yesterday but couldn't pay until tomorrow. Not that he, in an instant, went from needing nothing to needing air, food, a tub of hot water and salts for his tired feet, and, more than anything, needing somebody - anybody - who was more concerned about where he would spend eternity rather than where he would spend Friday's paycheck. Or that he resisted the urge to fry the two=bit, self-appointed hall monitors of holiness who dared suggest that he was doing the work of the devil. Not that he kept his cool while the dozen best friends he ever had felt the heat and got out of the kitchen. Or that he gave no command to the angels who begged, "Just give us the nod, Lord. One word and these demons will be deviled eggs." Not that he refused to defend himself when blamed for every sin of every slut and sailor since Adam. Or that he stood silent as a million guilty verdicts echoed in the tribunal of heaven and the giver of light was left in the chill of a sinner's night. Not even that after three days in a dark hole he stepped into the Easter sunrise with a smile and a swagger and a question for lowly Lucifer - "Is that your best punch?" That was cool, incredibly cool. But want to know the coolest thing about the One who gave up the crown of heaven for a crown of thorns? He did it for you. Just for you.
Max Lucado
Yet when God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. Imprisoned in flesh. Restricted by weary-prone muscles and eyelids. For more than three decades, his once limitless reach would be limited to the stretch of an arm, his speed checked to the pace of human feet.I wonder, was he ever tempted to regain his boundlessness? In the middle of a long trip, did he ever consider transporting himself to the next city? When the rain chilled his bones, was he tempted to change the weather? When the heat parched his lips, did he give thought to popping over to the Caribbean for some refreshment? If he ever entertained such thoughts, he never gave into them. Not once. Stop and think about this. Not once did Christ use his supernatural powers for personal comfort. With one word, he could've transformed the hard earth into a soft bed, but he didn't. With a wave of his hands, he could've boomeranged the spit of his accusers back into their faces, but he didn't. With an arch of his brow, he could've paralyzed the hand of the soldier as he braided the crown of thorns. But he didn't.
Max Lucado
When Jesus enters a country the fire of revival starts burning there
Sunday Adelaja
Jesus Christ is the most outstanding person who has ever lived on planet earth
Sunday Adelaja
We don’t just learn facts, but we learn a Face. We’re not just learners of principles, but of a Person. We are lifelong learners in relationship with Jesus as we hear his voice in his word and have his ear in prayer, and share in community with his body, all through the power of his Spirit.
David Mathis
As I speak for many in the budding new missional church world I have to share that I no longer judge the faithful fervent work of so many pastors who have pastored well but who struggle to find their place in this new world. They deserve to be honored instead of belittled. Without their legacy we would have nothing to build upon.
Hugh Halter & Matt Smay
If I think God’s aim is to produce rule-followers, spiritual growth will always be an obligation rather than a desire of my heart.
John Ortberg
Grace is a person. And his name is Jesus.
Judah Smith
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.
Rob Bell
Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.
Timothy J. Keller
If you want to help people we have to dive into people wade into the sea of humanity.
Hugh Halter & Matt Smay
We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.
Tullian Tchividjian
The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.
Max Lucado
We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.
Sunday Adelaja
Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.
Rick Warren
Do not pursue what you cannot keep.
Sunday Adelaja
Mercy and favor are miracles of God that give a man something he could not even dare to dream of.
Sunday Adelaja
Your dream is real
Sunday Adelaja
If we do not start doing something towards the fulfillment of our dream or,it will never come to pass
Sunday Adelaja
Planning is the key to success, course he who fails to plan has actually plan to fail
david ibeyeomie
River of life will always flow from The Church.”― Dr Paul Gitwaza
Paul Gitwaza