Quotes by Speakers - Page 50

Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your being and desire, your heart turns Him toward you. You capture His attention and attracts His affection.
Tommy Tenney
Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.
Tommy Tenney
We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.
Paul David Tripp
When we dedicate our talent to serving a neighbor, it is possibly one of the highest forms of worship; something sacred transpires when we sacrifice our time and dedicate our God-given loves and talents to one another.
Matt Litton
A church begins to die when it says, ‘They were just children.
Wess Stafford
Church, in the New Testament sense of the word, is not a meeting we attend, but a group of which we are a part, and a group we serve within.
Keri Wyatt Kent
Human beings by their very nature are worshipers. Worship is not something we do; it defines who we are. You cannot divide human beings into those who worship and those who don’t. Everybody worships; it’s just a matter of what, or whom, we serve.
Paul David Tripp
Religion and spirituality can easily be intertwined; however, there is a very distinct separation between the two.
Ricky Maye
The fact that you don't feel Him [God] holding you doesn't change the fact that He still is.
Wayne Jacobsen and Dave Coleman
Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.
John Paul Warren
The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man!
John Paul Warren
Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing
John Paul Warren
Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that settles all the dust and resolves every question even when it is not entirely true over the mercy and grace of God.
Richard Rohr
If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.
Eric Samuel Timm
The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It’s not the gathering of the saved.
Richard Rohr
Many of the gay Christians I was in conversation with were not demanding wholesale movement to a fully affirming and inclusive stance. There were those who were uncertain of such a stance even for themselves. What they did desire was space, a safe space without judgment, accusation, condemnation, assumption, and rejection. They desired a generous spaciousness to embrace authentic faith while engaging the quest for an honest, godly, and fulfilling life as a gay person.
Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter
Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. He was given new assurance, and wrote to his parents of his intention to go to Ecuador. Understandably, they, with others who knew Jim well, wondered if perhaps his ministry might not be more effective in the United States, where so many know so little of the Bible's really message He replied: "I dare not stay home while Quiches perish. What if the well-filled church in the homeland needs stirring? They have the Scriptures Moses, and the prophets, and a whole lot more. Their condemnation is written on their bank books and in the dust on their Bible covers.
Elisabeth Elliot
What I think we as the church lack, though, is a place to talk about how things really are right now. In our desire to be an inspiration to one another we often veil what is true, because what is true is not always inspirational. It's not easy to watch or personally experience a marriage on the verge of divorce, or a child battling cancer, or a betrayal of the worst kind, or dreams lost in the dust, or overwhelming feelings of despair or emptiness. But these things are real. And hurting believers whose lives are in tatters need real help. If we were able to put aside our need for approval long enough to be authentic, then, surely, we would be living as the church.
Sheila Walsh
Behavior speaks... When you need money, the church tells you to pray. When the church needs money, they pass around a basket.
Steve Maraboli
The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
John Paul Warren
I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship
John Paul Warren
The lampstand was position strategically to do one things: cast its light on the table and on the bread that represented God's provision and presence. For generations the lampstand of the tabernacle stood to highlight the object that best represented God's goodness and provision, the same object that Jesus would one day use to symbolize His own body. (Jesus compares church to a lampstand in Revelation- a strong reminder of the church's responsibility). Everything about these churches 0 their teaching, practices, and work-- was challenged for one reason in Revelation: They were losing their effectiveness as God's light to their communities.
Reggie Joiner
It is important to note that the lampstand in the tabernacle did not cast a broad light, illuminating everything in the tabernacle; the focus of its beam was specifically on the bread of presence. Likewise, the church is not called to illuminate everything -- its light should be concentrated on showing others who God is. For church leaders, our jobs are clear: we have to keep the wicks trimmed, the light burning, and the lampstand in its proper place. if the light begins to dim, we must immediately move into action. God's intention is for the church to be placed strategically in culture in order to show Himself to the world. Anytime the church becomes ineffective in its role to illuminate Christ, it must rekindle and reinvent itself around its core purpose.
Reggie Joiner
Jesus said, " I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself," knowing that the nature of a forgiving Christ on the cross would compel people to follow Him. As long as the church remains an effective platform for God's light to reveal to the world the sacrifice Jesu samde, the church will be anturally irresistible. Light is inherently inviting-- just think of a porch light left on late into the night. Light communicates comfort, warmth, and healing. It gives direction and hope so we can see better and understand more fully. Most people I meet are looking for light. The problem is that the emphasis is of too many churches has gradually shifted and changed.
Reggie Joiner
Sometimes love can be both the punishment and the crime.
Steve Maraboli
I Am excited, this is a new day and one I have never experienced nor will again. What fantabulous miracles will show up today!
Lee Pryke
Through His Word we fall in love with Him more, and because of this we love more.
Eric Samuel Timm
As a leader, if you can no longer inspire your people it is time to step aside and let someone else take the lead
Thomas Narofsky
If you want to get the best out of people, ask them for help rather than assigning them work.
Jag Randhawa
Our minds thirst for anything that reminds us of the deepest wisdom of the soul.
Vironika Tugaleva
The greatest leaders can inspire you and lead the way without ever having to give you their back.
Steve Maraboli
Patience is learned through waiting
E'yen A. Gardner
We must remember balance and moderation. Patience can be spiritually enriching and virtuous… but when taken in excess, it turns to procrastination, the poison of inaction.
Steve Maraboli
Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.
Bryant McGill
There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.
Bryant McGill
We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Bryant McGill
Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.
Os Guinness
Never give up on walking right. Something you have to remember is that God’s fulfilled promises take patience and faith! Having faith believes in not what you SEE but what you BELIEVE.
Chloe M. Gooden
Be the patience you seek
Bryant McGill
Hurry wounds a questioning soul.
Sarah Bessey
The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender.
Bryant McGill
You don't always have to teach the the corrective lesson. Sometimes you can teach the lesson of patience and non-engagement.
Bryant McGill
Your dream is only possible through a clear intention and patience.
Bryant McGill
The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.
T.F. Hodge
Impatience is a form of fear: fear of running out of time.
Russell Eric Dobda
Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.
Lisa Bevere
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
Joyce Meyer
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Elisabeth Elliot
I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan W. Watts
Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequently they simply want a man or woman to whom they can turn--not because of what this person is able to do but because of what he or she is: a person who makes them feel wanted, a friend to love them, one who generates an atmosphere of warmth and trust in which they are able to love in return.
Brennan Manning
What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.
Susan Cain
Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, often in the form of communion with writers and musicians I'll never meet in person. Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader 'that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.
Susan Cain
Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne Cordeiro
I don’t know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I’m going to make this day count! Will you?
Steve Maraboli
Feeling at home anywhere on earth, and a foreigner even in the country where I was born, I consider myself an earthling, a citizen of the world.I love nature dearly and all creatures that contribute to make it what it is. I see the beauty in all expressions of life, and I see how blind so many of us still are. Our planet is remarkably abundant and there's more than enough for us all.It is greed and shortsightedness that create the illusion of scarcity. I have lived through tremendous adventures and survived only because other people risked their lives for me. Realising how interconnected and interdependent we all are, I am neither shy or embarrassed when it is time for me lean on another to ask for help. And when I have the opportunity to help another, I view it as my duty and privilege.
Yossi Ghinsberg
I am a living soul dwelling on a planet that is afloat in a universe radiant with life. I feel so small and at the same time so uniquely privileged to partake in that inconceivable mystery.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Simply stated, earth is a school-a divine educational process custom-fit to each of us.
Richard Paul Evans
Until we get it right, we shall return to the earth-school time after time.
T.F. Hodge
You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved.
Robbie Vorhaus
It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.
Steve Maraboli