Top 742 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Pastors - Page 9

Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.

Look, don't judge Christianity by the imperfect examples that we have seen in history. Judge it by Jesus Christ.

When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live

If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.

I don't want to be the biggest or the best, I want to be faithful.

Where progress is desire, change is Inevitable.

There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.

You never increase in anything you resent.

Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.

It’s easy: You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your allegiance. At the end of that trail you’ll find a throne; and whatever, or whoever, is on that throne is what’s of highest value to you. On that throne is what you worship.

Don't be ashamed to celebrate victories that may seem small to others. Only you and God know what they really cost.

I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.

Nothing about my birth - or yours - was random or accidental. I was born for this time - and so were you. We were each chosen for a particular, cosmically important task that can be done by no one else.

So, my brother and I, over the last two years, went back through Scripture and pulled every (passage) we could in relation to parenting children, guarding their hearts, teaching them, loving them, being patient. And then we worked through 40 principles and wrote The Love Dare for Parents.

If you're single, use this time now to make the biggest impact you can for God's Kingdom. Enjoy how God uses you as a single adult to show His love to others because you are in a unique place to minister to others where married adults could not!

Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

If you're not ready to get married, don't grab at a relationship. Patiently wait for the right time to start one that can eventually lead to marriage. If you're ready for marriage and you're in a relationship, don't let impatience cause you to rush. Take your time. Enjoy where God has the two of you right now.

Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.

Courtship is a commitment - it's a promise not to play games with another person's heart.

God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.

Jesus is never bored in his relationship with you.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

You will never experience the fullness of joy you were created to know until Jesus Christ has first place in every area.

You can look at a monkey and see that there is more than a five percent difference in DNA.

Never grow weary in the fight to rescue the most forgotten.

Believe you receive in the faith realm, and you shall have it in the natural realm.

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.

The Father doesn't give life directions in one big bundle because the goal is knowing Him, not the plan.

The next time the devil tempts you to think that you are not worthy to approach God, here is what I advise: Agree. Say, “You are right. I am not worthy to approach God. I never was worthy to approach God. I never will be worthy to approach God. My access to God’s presence is not based on my worthiness, it is based on what Christ did for me on the cross.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

If you're not a Christian, you're going to hell. It's not unloving to say that. it's unloving not to say that.

Wisdom can’t prevent the storm.

There's some homophobia within black community, but there's some strong homophobia throughout the whole of American society as well, particularly throughout the South to a degree, whether white or black. And since many of us migrated from the South, that could be a strong connection along those lines.

Find a need and fill it, find a hurt and heal it.

God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

God doesn't want you to be addicted to anything in life except Him.

When you let God be God you can let humans be humans. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down.

When we feed our faith, we starve our doubts.

I will fight to the death for one's right to be able to practice in their temple, their mosque, or in their church, even if they have a different belief than I do.

We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.

God, through Jesus Christ, is the victory, and the renewed earth will reflect that glory.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

God is constantly creating anew. And God also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the recreation of the world.

We take a lot of things for granted in our lives, such as gravity, air, daylight and time. Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant non-renewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully; intentionally, wisely and productively.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

I plead guilty to that when I was young pastor. In one of my churches I changed so much, one old wag said I'd changed everything in the church except the signs on the bathroom doors! I could have used a little more wisdom. And common sense.

The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.

We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?

If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!

Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.

80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.

In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.