Top 742 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Pastors - Page 13

Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable.

My joy is not determined by what happens to me, but what Christ is doing in me and through me.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

Everything may not be OK but if God is with you, you will be OK.

So, what we do in Love Dare for Parents is walk through the principles that help you win the hearts of your children and find that balance as a parent. As we all know, parenting can be wonderful and exasperating at times. So, we walk through the principles of demonstrating love to your kids in the most appropriate and healthy ways. We learned a great deal doing it and we believe the readers will too.

When we step out into the unknown that is when God is made known.

The modern-day gospel says, 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. Therefore, follow these steps, and you can be saved.' Meanwhile, the biblical gospel says, 'You are an enemy of God, dead in your sin, & in your present state of rebellion, you are not even able to see that you need life, much less to cause yourself to come to life. Therefore, you are radically dependent on God to do something in your life that you could never do.

Starbucks has kept me in the ministry.

You know, what God uses to impress a pagan world is really the quality of life, the standard of living that we have. Because when all is said and done – now that you have become a Christian, how much better is your life as compared to those outside the four walls of the church? And I love what Dr Phil is trying to bring throughout the whole movement and to all his friends around the world, that our job is to give all our members the ‘best life now’. Yeah! Amen?

Don't lean on your own understanding. If your trust in God is limited by your understanding of His ways, you will always have a limited trust.

God will allow us to follow self-help, self-improvement programs until we have tried them all, until we finally come to the honest confession, ‘I can't do it. I can't be righteous in my own strength!’ It is then, when we admit our utter powerlessness, that we find hope. For it is then when the Lord intervenes to do a work that we could not do for ourselves.

Success is on the same road as failure; success is just a little further down the road.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

A blessed life is one that understands that when God saves you, He has others in mind. I believe every Christian needs to know that they are not only saved, but are also called to live a life of purpose.

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.

Every number has a name! Every name has a story! Every story matters to God!

Love is a very compelling argument.

We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!

When you come to Jesus, you don't come to get health, wealth and prosperity. You come to Jesus to get Jesus