Pastor Quotes - Page 4

• Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Suffering, Study

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• You weren't put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Soul, Preparation

  Rick Warren (2011). “What on Earth Am I Here For? Purpose Driven Life”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!

  Chuck Smith

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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• Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

  R. A. Torrey

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey (2016). “HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]”, p.43, Christian Publishing House

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• You’d be surprised at the things that look great on the outside but are dysfunctional on the inside. Be sure to function as good as you look

  T. D. Jakes

  Dysfunction, Looks, Appearance

  Twitter post from Nov 20, 2013

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• Consider what it takes for successful businessmen and businesswomen, effective entrepreneurs and hardworking associates, shrewd retirees and idealistic students to combine forces with a creative pastor to grow a "successful church" today. Clearly, it doesn't require the power of God to draw a crowd in our culture. A few key elements that we can manufacture will suffice.

  David Platt

  Successful, Church Today, Keys

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• Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Fear, Hate

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.172, Penguin

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• Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Marriage, Feelings

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.66, Penguin

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• Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!

  T. B. Joshua

  Religious, Not Good Enough, Best Is Yet To Come

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• Refuse to be average.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Inspirational, Average, Editors

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• We must like Moses cover ourselves with faith and humility while we steal a quick look at the God whom no man can see and live. The broken and the contrite heart He will not despise. We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God passed by. We must take refuge from God in God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

  "The Knowledge of the Holy: The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life".

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• We are not alone.  Even now there are thousands of beings in heaven watching what is going on down here—a ‘great cloud of witnesses,’ the Scripture says.  It reminds me that there is so much more to our existence than what we can see.  What we do reverberates through the heavens and into eternity.

  Francis Chan

  Bible, Christian, Clouds

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.170, David C Cook

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• Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Pain

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.46, Penguin

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• Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Positive, Faith, Christian

  Robert H. Schuller (1993). “Robert H Schuller: The Inspirational Writings : Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do/Tough Minded Faith for Tender Hearted People”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.

  Jim Cymbala

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Jim Cymbala from Oct 03, 2015

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• We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

  James Montgomery Boice

  God, Religious, Future

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• Your mind was made to know and love God.

  John Piper

  Love, God, Christian

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• Love that goes upward is worship;
  Love that goes outward is affection;
  Love that stoops is grace.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Love, Grace, Affection

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• The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Christian, Religious

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• God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Prayer

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• [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

  Timothy Keller

  Friendship, Marriage, God

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.85, Penguin

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• A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.

  Tony Evans

  Life, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Tony Evans from Dec 11, 2013

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• This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

  Adrian Rogers

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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