Quotes by Pastors - Page 79

Dare to make major changes to reach your newly discovered destiny
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God knows how to turn your helplessness into strength
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God always turns a person’s weakness into strength
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Pivotal changes occur with every period of time
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We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun
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The changes of this new time will not only be noticeable around us but also within us
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Those who know God can smoothly adapt to changes
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Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process
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We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government
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Learning to change the world is rarely easy or convenient--it can be complex, costly, and messy.
Ken Wytsma
All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.
Timothy J. Keller
We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll
Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.
Randy Alcorn
Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.
Joshua Harris
If we don’t live by God’s heartbeat, by what He has in His heart, then we are wasting our time and life
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Our thinking makes our life
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Life is to be lived by being in charge of time.
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Reduce the influence of religion upon your life.
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If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.
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The miracle centered gospel breeds up a mentality of people that think they could go through life without doing their best.
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People who don’t have patience don’t achieve anything in life.
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Nothing great comes to pass in life without perseverance.
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If you want to make a difference in the world... prepare to suffer.
Jeff Vines
Every life will be better if God is at the center of it
Bill Hybels
I thought of you when I read this quote from "A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace" by Brian Zahnd -"Jesus is introduced. (Standing ovation.) He stands before Congress and begins to deliver his speech. “Blessed are the poor …the mourners … the meek.” “Love your enemies.” “Turn the other cheek.” After a few perfunctory applauses early on, I’m pretty sure there would be a lot of squirming senators and uncomfortable congressmen. The room would sink into a tense silence. And when Jesus concluded his speech with a prophecy of the inevitable fall of the house that would not act upon his words (Matt. 7:26–27), what would Congress do? Nothing. They would not act. They could not act. To act on Jesus’s words would undo their system. The Sermon on the Mount doesn’t work in Cain’s system—no matter how noble or sophisticated. In the end, the US Congress would no more adopt the policies Jesus set out in the Sermon on the Mount than they were adopted by the Jewish Sanhedrin or the Roman Senate.
Brian Zahnd
Having the understanding of God, God’s ambassadors are able to bring a country out of crisis, change politics, business and economy
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I just don't think pastors should turn their pulpits into public policy platforms. It cheapens the gospel. Our congregation doesn't need another political opinion. They need spiritual revelation. They don't need to think about politics on the weekend. They need to be reminded to seek first the kingdom of God.
Mark Batterson
Condemnation feels good and it is now a staple of religion, politics, and the media (both left and right), but it changes nothing. Compassion, on the other hand, changes everything. (p. 121)
Robin R. Meyers
Where there is love, it is Jesus that will surely triumph.
Richard Wurmbrand
The church has to show the way of freedom to the nation
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The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!
Jay E. Adams
The world isn't scandalized by our freedom but by our fakeness.
Tullian Tchividjian
What we think about when we are free to think about what we will – that is what we are or will soon become.
A.W. Tozer
There is nothing God loves more that keeping promises, answering prayers, performing miracles, and fulfilling dreams.
Mark Batterson
God-ordained dreams aren't just born. They are reborn. If they become more important to you than God, you have to sacrifice them for the sake of your soul. You have to put them on the altar and raise the knife. And once the dream is dead and buried, it can be resurrected for God's glory.
Mark Batterson
Dreams without deadlines are dead in the water. Deadlines are really lifelines to achieving our goals.
Mark Batterson
Diligence makes big dreams come to past
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Dreams give rise to visions in the heart of a man
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Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams
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In bringing dreams into fulfillment, your potential and extraordinary personality must be revealed
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In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.
Mark Batterson
So long as breath remains in our lungs, untapped potential lies inside us, waiting to be released. The reason we are still alive is that we are carrying something inside us that this generation needs. That’s why we’re not yet in heaven.
Wayne Cordeiro
Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside all of us; but we grow to realize we can no longer hear it, and we live in silence. It isn’t that God stopped speaking; it is that our lives became louder.
Mike Yaconelli
Jesus was saying that you can't have a larger life with restricted attitudes.
Joel Osteen
The atrocities of war are only overshadowed by the heroism of their dead.
Todd Stocker
If we want to benefit most from our suffering, by prayer and meditation, we will approach our suffering as a good soldier approaches war. What do I mean by that? A good soldier who has trained and trained is not surprised when he fins himself in war! He has been trained for it. Likewise, consider it your Job to be be prepared to suffer. That puts a whole different cast on Sunday morning, doesn't it? You are gathering with God's people Lord's Day after Lord's Day to train as good soldiers of Jesus Christ so that when your time of trial and testing sand suffering comes, you will be ready.
J. Ligon Duncan III
Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.
Craig Groeschel
In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal.
Craig Groeschel
Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you want to know God intimately, walk with Him daily, and please Him in every way, you're going to have to do what few do. Absolutely nothing.
Craig Groeschel
Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond a couple together. Sex connects and fuses people together.
Craig Groeschel
Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only get away but also plan their escape route.
Craig Groeschel
Weird people love well.
Craig Groeschel
Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to make a difference. They're willing to take a stand for whatever they believe, even to die for a cause. When they sell out to Jesus, they'll pursue a standard of righteousness that is greater than anything you and I ever saw growing up. Don't water it down. Don't lower the standard. And don't just settle for raising it-raise it higher. Believe in your children. Talk with them. Speak well of them. Encourage them. Pray for them. Celebrate the victories with them. Affirm their growth. We can raise a generation that, although they'll make mistakes, will sell out completely when Jesus grips them. They'll give Him everything. They'll make you proud by being even weirder than you are.
Craig Groeschel
The ministry of bearing with one another is more than simply tolerating difficult people. It is also learning to hear God speak through them.
John Ortberg
If people do not know the rules, they will continue making mistakes and the situation will only worsen
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Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises
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By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words
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The government can make laws but they can’t make people live by these laws
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It is what we sow into people that they become
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It doesn’t matter what people thinks of us what is important is what God thinks of us
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