Pastor Quotes - Page 2

• God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

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• God's reckless grace is our greatest hope.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Christian, Hope

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.23, Penguin

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• Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Wise, Expectations

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• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

  W. A. Criswell

  Moving On, Encouraging, God

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• The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

  Bill Hybels, Life work journal, Charles R. Swindoll, Larry Burkett (2000). “The Life@work Book”, W Publishing Group

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• When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

  Billy Graham

  Family, Society, Baptists

  Twitter post from Jul 12, 2013

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• In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.

  Richard Halverson

  Philosophy, Moving, Men

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• First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Libertarian Party, Poetry, Catholic

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• ...the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Humility, Thinking

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• Love looks around to see who is in need

  T. B. Joshua

  Love, Needs, Looks

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• The human heart is an idol factory that takes good things like a successful career, love, material possessions, even family, and turns them into ultimate things. Our hearts deify them as the center of our lives, because, we think, they can give us significance and security, safety and fulfillment, if we attain them.

  Timothy Keller

  Love, Family, Success

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• God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Happy, God, Religious

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

  Timothy Keller

  Life, God, Religious

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.44, Penguin

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• Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.

  Timothy Keller

  Friends, Wisdom, Healthy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.72, Penguin

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• We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Religious, Jesus

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• Within the soil of a discouraging season can often be the seeds of incredible blessing, miracles and breakthrough!

  Brian Houston

  Inspirational, Blessing, Often Is

  Twitter post from Oct 4, 2013

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• We go astray when we think that we can do spiritual work without spiritual power.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Spiritual, Religious

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• Without worship, we go about miserable.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• You need to be in a church where the pastors are urging you, not so much to listen to what they say as to turn to the Bible from which they teach.

  Alistair Begg

  Past, Church, Needs

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• I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

  Rick Warren

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 17, 2012

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• Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Position Of Power, People, Scary

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• Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

  Guillermo Maldonado

  Life, Happy, Loneliness

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• Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

  Victoria Osteen

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Victoria Osteen from Dec 10, 2012

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• The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be.

  Rick Warren

  Inspirational, God, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Oct 04, 2013

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