Quotes by Pastors - Page 23

God himself is pleading through us for people to be reconciled to him, if we prepare our body for him
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Fellowshipping with people is life
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To serve does not mean just to attend church services
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Consistent, Timely encouragement has the staggering magnetic power to draw an immortal soul to the God of Hope. The one whose name is Wonderful Counselor.
Charles R. Swindoll
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.
W. Phillip Keller
To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.
Craig Groeschel
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
You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity.
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God is so much bigger than our ‘what ifs’ that he can turn them into ‘why nots
Gary Rohrmayer
Jesus Christ on earth was to destroy ignorance by manifesting light
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In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God.
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All that is considered truth and undoubted will sooner or later get into the sub consciousness
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If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to theprinciples of the Kingdom
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Every Christian should be a faithful minister and steward of God
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Success is just around the corner from difficulty.
Todd Stocker
The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.
Greg Laurie
Our offices are filled with people working their lives out to enrich their boss, government or company.
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To Influence Every Sphere Of Society Is To Engage The Power Of The Gospel
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When introverts go to church, we crave sanctuary in every sense of the word, as we flee from the disorienting distractions of twenty-first-century life. We desire to escape from superficial relationships, trivial communications and the constant noise that pervade our world, and find rest in the probing depths of God's love.
Adam S. McHugh
Loving God is a display of the heart
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You cannot honor God without honoring people first
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When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.
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To Be Trained Is To Be Strengthened
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And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.
Craig Groeschel
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
Craig Groeschel
Discovery Determines The System Of Education
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We only see God when we see people
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One of the primary reasons we don't seek counsel from the wise people around us is that we already know what we are going to hear--and we just don't want to hear it.
Andy Stanley
The secret of success lies in the perfection of one’s gift and working frantically towards God’s given potential
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Faith precedes all great accomplishments.
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...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
The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.
Francis Chan
Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.
Steve Cioccolanti
If you are not planning for success, then you are planning for failure.
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If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it
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Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective
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Let go of the past and cling to the future.
Dr. Reverend Garry A. Scheuer Jr.
The effectiveness of your life is determined by your ability to convert your time into values
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God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.
Henry T. Blackaby
Before marriage, you lose your virginity. After marriage, you get to give it away. Which would you rather experience?
Todd Stocker
The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.Why alone?He's alone so that we might never be alone.
C.J. Mahaney
Whatever we do, we must not treat the Great Commission like it's the Great Suggestion.
Charles R. Swindoll
It is impossible to pause, stop or delay time
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Work hard as if there was no God and trust God as if you have not worked.
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In the nearest future, those who understood the value of time will rule over those who trivialized time.
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Money makes a person significant and important , it has the ability to make us proud
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True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness.
John Ortberg
The author offers Paul Tripp's analogy that most of the strategies for growth in the Christian life amounts to stapling live roses on a dead bush.
J.D. Greear
The truth is that most of us are not our best selves.
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To believe lies is to be beguiled
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When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith.
Craig Groeschel
Why do we act as though our sin disqualifies us from the grace of God? That is the only thing that qualifies us! Anything else is a self-righteous attempt to earn God's grace. You cannot trust God's grace 99 percent. It's all or nothing. The problem, as I pointed out earlier, is that we want partial credit for our salvation. We want to be 1 percent of the equation. But if we try to save ourselves, we forfeit the salvation that comes from Jesus Christ alone, by grace through faith.
Mark Batterson
Wisdom dwells in the heart of God.
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Jesus doesn't adjust to us, and He doesn't submit to our whims. We adjust to Jesus and submit to Him. Jesus is King, not an accessory.
Justin Buzzard
Whenever justice to ordinary men, widows, orphans, poor, disadvantaged and the general mass is delayed or denied, that leads to God’s frustration. At a time like that, God laments, WHERE IS A MAN
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Being aware of who you are, you will ensure that you do not waste your time spending energy on unnecessary things
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It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.
David Mathis
Don’t wait for people to locate you. Rather, reach out to people and help to bring them to Christ
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The person who knows his calling will not be embarrassed in front of great and famous people because he knows who he is, and he knows the purpose of his life
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Sometimes due to God’s mercy, the time in God’s plan can be stretched or extended
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