Top 742 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Pastors - Page 10

You were placed on earth to know God. Everything else is secondary.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.

The truth is, sometimes you have to get left before you can get right. Sometimes God will take you left on your journey to get you right, to do a work in you that will prepare you for what He has for you.

There was on section in First Corinthians 13 that talks about (showing) patience, kindness, politeness, how can I demonstrate forgiveness to my children and more fully enjoy them as they're growing up and vice versa. And so, each of those has a day's journey. There are 40 days that people will go through in applying these biblical principles for their kids. We spell them out in layman's terms so it's really easy to grasp a principle.

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

Those who walk in radical obedience have made themselves ready for the storm, and they will overcome.

God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.

I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.

The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him (God), the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted. .. This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '(homosexuality) is not a sin'.

Grace is God-given power to live differently.

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.

A leader should care way more about HOW people are doing rather than HOW they are doing their work.

Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical.

Jesus taught us to pray, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us" not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.

I will not fail: God is always victorious.

To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.

We like foreplay with God, but we make sure we have our spiritual contraceptives on! Cause we don't want to conceive nothing.

As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.

I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.

You can tell a lot about a person by what they let roll off their back.

If you need wisdom and guidance, then pray to the Lord to guide you.

How do you know you have a servant's heart? Look at your reaction when you are treated like one.

So many people have fat bank accounts! But when God wants them to give they can’t give. When God wants them to do certain things they can’t do it – then they’re not really rich. They are not really! Because they do not have the financial abundance to obey God’s will. .

The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.

Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up to God in new ways. People of faith in ancient times understood that such physical acts and practices as rest and worship, dietary restrictions, and mandated fabric in their wardrobes were of great value to their faith and life.

Someone has said that the marks of a strong church are wet eyes, bent knees, and a broken heart. We'll never be powerful until we let God be God and jealously guard His honor.

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.

We do live best in this world when we keep the next in mind.

The Song is a gritty, realistic, and powerful film. The acting and production quality are excellent, and the story is captivating. Although not for children, the story is a good reminder to adults of what really matters!

No matter how many pleasures Satan offers you, his ultimate intention is to ruin you. Your destruction is his highest priority.

What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention.

If you entrust God with your 'here,' He will take you 'there.' If you give Him your 'now,' He will take care of 'then.'

Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

Grace saved my life; it can revolutionize yours.

Lots of times, our main problem isn't our problem. Our biggest problem is our perspective on our problem.

Don’t concern yourself with being right in others’ eyes. And don’t secretly hope that their lives will fall apart so that your opinion will be vindicated. Instead, concentrate on obeying God in your own life and, when possible, helping others to obey Him as well. You don’t have to prove others wrong to continue on the course you know God has shown you.

Even if people have disappointed you or circumstances have not turned out as you had hoped or prayed, know that God is with you, cares for you, and loves you. He is working all these things together for your good right at this very moment.

The ISIS situation is not just “their problem to deal with in the Middle East,” it’s OUR PROBLEM because it involves people Jesus died for.

The inerrancy debate is based on the belief that the Bible is the word of God, that the Bible is true because God made it and gave it to us as a guide to truth. But that's not what the Bible says.

Let heaven fill your thoughts instead. Because when you do, everything on earth gets placed in its proper perspective.

Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

The church is the bride of Christ. The kingdom will be the eternal celebration of the wedding of Christ and the church. We will enjoy rapturous celebration as the bride of Christ in the eternal kingdom.

People do not have a constitutional right to be married any more than we could say that someone has a constitutional right to a driver's license. You either meet the requirements or you don't. In the case of marriage, homosexuals do not meet the requirements of marriage.

Had it been in the Old Testament Harry Potter would have been put to death.

It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.

This world needs more than good works. It needs good news. Good works come out of the good news.

Don't miss God's fingerprints all over the events, lining up people and circumstances in perfect timing to preserve His people and advance His agenda.

You know you're hearing from God when you don't walk away with facts but you walk away with faith.

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

Christians actually need to be confronted by their real need-an understanding of God's holiness and their own sinfulness-so they can be usable to Him for His Glory. When we have a right relationship to God, every aspect of our lives will settle into its divinely ordained place. ... We are still to need other needs but it begins with a high view of God.

We're seeing that God's word and His principles do work. They may not work overnight but they are powerful and when we apply them in the way He shows us to apply them in life then we're going to see positive consequences.

If you preachers would start winning souls everywhere you go, you wouldn't have to get a book of illustrations to preach from next Sunday.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.

The Church is not an enforcer of rules, but an outpost of grace

If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election.