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Quotes
Contributed by Tom Papez on Jan 31, 2014 (message contributor)
Summary: Once in awhile, I hear a quote that find especially powerful so I write it down in a list. Here are some that I feel wallop an impact.
QUOTES
It is better to be on the waves with Jesus than to be in the boat without him.
-thought by Peter
2 Peter 3:9 states that the Lord is not being slow on his promise to return, he is being patient for your sake. If that’s is true, that means Almighty God is waiting for you.
-Pastor Jeremy Plymale
Thanks to Christ, this earth is the nearest we will ever get to hell.
Yet, Apart from Christ, this earth is the nearest you will ever get to heaven.
-Pastor Jeremy Plymale
The gates of hell are locked from the inside.
-CS Lewis
If anyone ever told you that the Christian life is a walk in the park, then they are probably lying to you about others things too.
-Pastor David Martin
I love those mountaintop experiences, but I can tell you that I have been to the mountaintop and know first hand that nothing grows there. The real growing goes in the deep ravines and dark crevices. Real Christian growth goes on through dark days, the dark times.
-Pastor David Martin
God spoke, Elijiah listened. If Elijiah was not use to hearing the voice of God, he would have woke up that day and said I just ate some bad pizza.
-Two Rivers Pastor
There are Jesus sees people’s faith and heals them. There are also times when Jesus sees people without faith and is upset with them. Why would we doubt?
-Pastor Jeremy Plymale
When we as believers don’t believe that God can handle our problems then why do you call us believers?
-Pastor Jeremy Plymale
Once you learn to quit it becomes a habit.
-Poster at Lincoln University locker room.
Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser.
-Poster at Lincoln University Locker room
All grit and no talent isn’t going to make you successful. But all talent and no grit isn’t going to get you there either.
-Don Mattingly, coach of Dodgers on his struggling team with a $217M payroll, USA Today, May 23, 2013.
You can’t take someTHING to heaven, but you can take someONE with you.
-Pastor David Martin
If anyone wanted to follow me would need to take his electric chair and carry it with him every day.
-Pastor David Martin
When you think you can’t wait don’t forget what’s true.
-The lemonade guy on the children’s church.
John 1:27 KJV
He it is, who is coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not unworthy to unloose.
“A real Christian is an odd number, anyway. He feel supreme love for one whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, strongest when he is weakest, richest when his is poor-est and happiest when he feels the worse. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible and knows that which passes knowledge.”
-A.W. Tozer
When you are right, you can afford to keep your temper. And when you are wrong, you can’t afford to lose it.
-David Martin
Moses spent 40 years becoming a somebody, 40 years becoming a nobody, then the final 40 years a nobody being used by God.
-David Martin
These beattitudes are not 8 separate truths that are like 8 pearls in a string, they are progressive and a single inter-related truth, they are 1 and build upon each other.
-David Martin
The word meek is used 15x in OT, 16x in NT.
Word meek typically refers to self-control. It applies to every person who has every passion, impact, and passion under control.
-David Martin
In your religion, you have to carry your God. But I serve a God who carries me.
-Christian missionary in Malaysia to his Chinese friend
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle, you have recorded each one in your book.
If he takes care of hairs, he takes care of hurts.
-Jeremy Plymale
Are you prepared to live life after death?
-Carol Sweeten
Even if you had a dad that didn’t know how to pray, his prayer in front of his kids would be more seasoned than any prayer ever spoke.
-Carol Sweeten
If you have two rabbits and one gun, if you shoot at both you’ll miss.
-Dave Martin
What would happen, for example, if you started acting like what happens at home might be more important than what happens at church?
