Quotes by Pastors - Page 70

A Christian’s mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community
Sunday Adelaja
A Christian’s mindset should be a victorious mentality
Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian’s life is full of God’s blessings
Sunday Adelaja
God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites
Sunday Adelaja
Every Christian has an opportunity to be successful
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
The church and all Christians need to pray, but without playing an active part, it is impossible to impact the country
Sunday Adelaja
If every Christian will have an active civil position, he can become a reformer in his country
Sunday Adelaja
The church and every Christian are individually responsible for the reformation of the country
Sunday Adelaja
An active civil position makes a Christian strong as the image of God
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Every Christian has their place in the body of Christ
Sunday Adelaja
Christian mentality is a victorious mentality
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A true Christian and true servant of God serves God and not man
Sunday Adelaja
A Christian must not while away time. Get engaged in something
Sunday Adelaja
Christians have the advantage of searching for all the answers to their questions in God
Sunday Adelaja
For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like. We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.
A.W. Tozer
We must let God be Himself in us. This means that we must let Him be Himself in others too. We ought not to judge the style of another person’s worship.But worship that is elitist or is reduced to the level of popular entertainment, worship that is emotional or aesthetic is worship in name only. It has the external form without the reality. What we long for is living worship. But how does this come about?Our churches should not be places where the unregenerate come on Sundays because they “like the worship.” Our churches ought to be places where the unregenerate feel uncomfortable because it is the Spirit who is important and who comes first. Our controlling principle must be obedience to the Spirit—no matter where He leads us.Psalm 37:4 is true for all of us, whomever we are or whatever we want. But when we delight ourselves in the Lord, some of our desires may wither away and be replaced by new ambitions. So it will not do to envisage a definite goal concerning the form our worship must take. We must first of all be sure that we are delighting ourselves in the Lord and then see what God does.
R.T. Kendall
In the silence punctuated only by their footsteps, both men thought not of themselves but of a Man who once made a long,lonely march up a hill, who in the world's worst hour did the most courageous thing ever done.At the end of His climb,He spread out His arms and permitted guilty men to drive nails into His hands and feet. He endured untold agony to give undeserving men- like Mike Hollis, Derrick Freeman, Nathan Hayes, and Adam Mitchell- a second chance.To most people none of this - not what these men were doing now, nor what He did two thousand years ago-made sense.From the outside, grace and truth,honor and courage,seldom do.
Randy Alcorn
We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
John Ortberg
We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.
Wayne Cordeiro
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
What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? the touch of God is marked by tears...deep, soul-shaking tears, weeping...it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness
David Wilkerson
God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.
Francis Chan
Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.
Rick Warren
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display. To do this, the church must stop thinking about everybody primarily in categories of in or out, saved or not, believer or nonbeliever. Besides the fact that these terms are offensive to those who are the "un" and "non", they work against Jesus' teachings about how we are to treat each other. Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor, and our neighbor can be anybody. We are all created in the image of God, and we are all sacred, valuable creations of God. Everybody matters. To treat people differently based on who believes what is to fail to respect the image of God in everyone. As the book of James says, "God shows no favoritism." So we don't either.
Rob Bell
The best way to reach your Goal is to say "NO" more than you say "YES
Todd Stocker
When you feel like you're at the end, Christ is just beginning.
Todd Stocker
History affects our future but it doesn’t determine it.
Todd Stocker
There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.
Todd Stocker
Sometimes God asks us to take a step before he confirms the course.
Todd Stocker
Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest.
Todd Stocker
Procrastination causes pressure that zaps creativity and excellence.
Todd Stocker
Life always squashes death. Love always soothes sadness.
Todd Stocker
Knowledge isn’t life changing. The application of knowledge is.
Todd Stocker
The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world.
Todd Stocker
God made us for relationships before he made us for tasks.
Todd Stocker
Choice is the grease in the gears of success.
Todd Stocker
True prayer is pleading with God for that which He wants to do anyway.
Todd Stocker
All Christians are in ministry. Sometimes, they're in church work.
Todd Stocker
A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends.
Todd Stocker
Preparation is the pressure valve on a busy schedule.
Todd Stocker
A life lived without borders is a life lived in captivity
Todd Stocker
Success is just around the corner from difficulty.
Todd Stocker
Remember God loves you, even when its hard to love yourself.
Todd Stocker
Making others better is a core value of a great life.
Todd Stocker
Over time, your actions betray your heart - for good or for evil.
Todd Stocker
Familiarity is the dagger thrust into the heart of fear.
Todd Stocker
If you try to be everywhere at once, you won't be anywhere at all.
Todd Stocker
Words give sound to the beauty of Life.
Todd Stocker
Never underestimate the value of good friends.
Todd Stocker
Patience is something I can’t wait to have!
Todd Stocker
You need to get out of your nest in order to fly.
Todd Stocker
It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.
Todd Stocker
When you join teams that changes lives, yours will be the first.
Todd Stocker
If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it.
Todd Stocker
Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.
Todd Stocker
The Church should be more concerned about the hearts of the lost rather than the comforts of the saved.
Todd Stocker
Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for
Myles Munroe
Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.
Warren W. Wiersbe