Quotes by Pastors - Page 3

To be relevant, you need to be purposeful
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God never said that we wouldn’t have unfair situations, that we wouldn’t experience loss. But He promised if we would stay in faith, He would restore everything that was stolen.
Joel Osteen
There is no other position and no other place where you will be as happy as the place of your calling
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Value time and convert it into greatness by investing it into learning and researching all that you can.
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.
Rick Warren
Most people do not take care of their lives, because they don’t value life
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The sum of greatest is not asking 'What do I want to be' but rather 'Who do I want to be
Todd Stocker
I often hear people talk about how corrupt their politicians are, it makes me laugh because, the very same people who are complaining are just as corrupt. When they get to those same places of authority, they do exactly the same thing for which they were complaining against the previous politicians.
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People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc.
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What if followers of Christ stopped looking for work in places where the MOST number of Christians Christians lived and started looking for work places where the LEAST Christians lived?
David Platt
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.
Timothy J. Keller
Godliness should promote the posture worth of exercise and fitness
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We are products of their weaknesses or strengths.
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Your life would never have a meaning if you don’t have a goal or purpose
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God’s plan is for every believer to be married to Christ
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You need to break a problem into pieces and do what is scheduled for each time slot
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Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, because you’re probably not obeying God.
Craig Groeschel
If you decide that what God is asking you to do with your life is just too much on you and is just a little too inconvenient, then you will never see the miracles he has for you.
Andy Stanley
Someone must stand up to confront and dissipate darkness.
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To submit one’s self to one’s gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one’s gift
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The knowledge that God lives in us will destroy all the limitations in the mind of those who have the name of Christ, but yet are weak
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We all must serve the Lord in whatsoever capacity He has called us to serve
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Things that you love or hate very much can be your destination
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You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are
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Understanding divine order is to establish the kingdom of love
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We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do
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It is unfortunate that many people today cannot appreciate the value that every man possesses.
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[God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.
Wayne Cordeiro
For everything you embrace, there is a consequence
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You need to understand the principle of intensity to reclaim time
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Sometimes we are outright rude when we interact with people. We meet a gay guy or a couple living together, and we think we have the obligation and right to warn them what God thinks about their sexuality on our first meeting. As if their sex life is the first thing on God’s agenda.It’s not.Love is. Grace is. Mercy is. Jesus is.
Judah Smith
Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer.
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Through uninhibited relationship with God you are empowered to function
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God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision
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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
You can choose to have a positive attitude
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Rather than trying to prove our masculinity, we need to accept who we are in the spirit of the gospel. Instead of trying to live up to some cultural standard of manhood, we need to accept God’s grace, which says, “I accept you just as you are.” It is culture, not God, that alienates those who do not live up to the existing, narrow definition of manhood.
Nate Pyle
Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do
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The purpose of employment is not to make money
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The deepness and consistency of your repenting will have a direct impact on the liveliness of your faith and the brightness of your confidence. This is not because you repent so well, but because in repenting you know the darkness and trouble of your own sin, and the great work of grace in Jesus that overcomes it all.
Joe Thorn
A leader should not be a dictator.
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A happy birthday is measured not in the amount one of gifts, but in the amount one is loved.
Todd Stocker
Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.
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God is the possessor of all earthly riches
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When we speak with others about our experience in Christ, it sharpens our attentiveness to the voice and will of the Father. Sharing our stories helps us clarify the intentions of our hearts toward the fulfillment of his divine will. A small circle of friends also reminds us of the presence, power and protection of the Holy Spirit. Confiding in one another instills a sense of hope for the future as children who are dearly loved by their Father.
Stephen A. Macchia
A selfish living is a wasteful living
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A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.
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Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.
Gary Rohrmayer
Be disciplined and effective in your relationship with God
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To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God’s love
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Our streets are littered with university graduates holding paper certificates and looking for a way to enslave themselves again under a boss in the name of looking for a job.
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He endured all that hell is on the cross, so that you would never know what hell is like.
Colin S. Smith
God gives grace to the humble
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Culture and holiness must be made compatible in the environment of the kingdom
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The nature of love requires a recipient one who will respond by choice to the love given
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Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
Max Lucado
Do not allow your life to just fly out of your own hands. Do not allow your life to just disappear into some abstract mirage.
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In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.
Ken Wilson
God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.
Rick Warren
You were born to be amazing.
Kris Vallotton