Quotes by Pastors - Page 8

When a person builds his life on the Word of God, he is not afraid of any trial.
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If a person seeks after the knowledge of God, he will certainly be a conqueror.
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When a person loses his purpose, he subjects himself to a free fall.
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The person, who works for the sake of gaining money, is serving money.
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Only the person, who can overcome himself, can become really wealthy.
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Every person has something he can serve other people with.
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When a person acts in accordance to God’s standards, he gets God’s wisdom.
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Holiness always exalts a person and brings him closer to God.
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If a person does not rule over money, then money will rule over him
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The Lord only praises the person who multiplies what has been given to him.
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The prosperity of a person is directly proportional to the level of his giving.
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The person who does not plan his life is basically planning to fail.
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every person should guard the vineyard where he has been called to labor
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Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord’s anointed
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it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.
Randy Alcorn
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
Rick Warren
It is true that for many aged saints, gray hair and a good head go hand in hand. But for others, far too many others, length of life only entrenches stubbornness, irritability, and careless ways of thinking and living. Life experience may increase inevitably with age, but without some long-term pattern of receptivity and intentionality, multiplied experiences will only create more confusion than clarity.
David Mathis
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
Max Lucado
One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?
Steven Furtick
Godliness with contentment is rare.
Craig Groeschel
This book is not the memoir of a contented man. It's not the poignant reflections of a white-haired guru who has finally figured out the secret to contentment. It's more like sweaty, bloody, hastily scribbled notes from a battlefield. I'm still struggling to escape the sinister fingers on this conspiracy. I'm still waging war against the discontentment that rages in my life. I can see contentment in the distance, like a hazy oasis, but I have to pick my way through a minefield to get there. I'm not the contented man God wants me to be, but I'm fighting to get there. I'm writing this book the hope that you'll join me in the fight.
Stephen Altrogge
Deep things are revealed to you in every encounter with God
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The best way to become poor is to give nothing.
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I feel like a child who has found a wonderful trail in the woods. Countless others have gone before and blazed the trail, but to the child it's as new and fresh as if it had never been walked before. The child is invariably anxious for others to join in the great adventure. It's something that can only be understood by actual experience. Those who've begun the journey, and certainly those who've gone further than I, will readily understand what I am saying.
Randy Alcorn
Your discovery determines what you are known for
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For every departed glory there is always a new discovery
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To heed the discovery is the key
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Work therefore is the paramount key to discovering yourself.
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Discovery Cancels Emotional Scars
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It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.
Wayde Goodall
If you would know these demands of life, you would gain a quicker success, at a greater pace, with less stress than otherwise.
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More than anything else, your people want you to listen to them.
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The cliché is true: People don't care what we know until they know we care.
Rick Warren
In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn’t a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.
Kevin Swanson
Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.
Wayde Goodall
We must minister out of weakness. The reason we help others is not because we are strong and they need us; it is because if we don't help them, we will end up a hopeless relic.
John Ortberg
Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.
Craig Groeschel
Divide the big task into small pieces which can be done every day
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What can I do in this situation?" The more we can ask such questions, the more we bring about changes where we are.
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Answers comes only when questions are asked
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Every human being ask this question of himself
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Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.
Matt Chandler
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
Matt Chandler
Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.
John Ortberg
Consider a situation where we refuse to pay attention to the less fortunate people in our neighbourhoods. If every single person in the elite of our society will take care of at least one child, most of the street kids would be taken care of. Yet, we act as if it is none of our business.
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God indeed could show up, but we must first show good stewardship by taking good care of our land.
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To build up people teach them to be administrators and managers.
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Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.
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A prudent ruler is distinguished by his ability to manage.
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The author describes the adoption process in which he and his wife participated as "a paperwork pregnancy".
David Platt
Without delayed gratification,there is no persistence.
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Hold on to God, hold on to your visions and continue to develop them
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God will always turn trials, national and personal into the manifestation of His glory
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Our active civil position will lead us to the manifestation of the glory of God in our nation
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The Larger A Purpose, The Bigger The Manifestation
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The New Testament is a manifestation of God in the flesh.
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A superior brain without the saving essence of godliness may turn against the human race and drench the world in blood, or worse, it may loose ideas into the earth which will continue to curse mankind for centuries after it has turned to dust again.
A.W. Tozer
To be motivated by divine love is to see your promise land as a platform to share the love of God with others
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God’s Jewish nation did not understand his divine priority for the kingdom
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To stop working, striving and pushing, just because you have enough, therefore is a disservice to the Divine.
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