Inspirational

This is a collection (in progress) of my favorite quotations from some of the best authors, pastors and worship leaders out there.

 

May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. To bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.  -Craig Groeschel

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Praying in faith is not an inner conviction that God will act according to our desires if only we believe hard enough.  It involves believing that God will always respond to our prayers in accord with his nature, his purposes, and his promises. -Alvin VanderGriend

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Worship is (our) response of all that (we) are – mind, emotions, will and body – to all that God is and says and does.  -Warren Wiersbe (Real Worship)

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People may forget what you SAID, but they will not forget how you made them FEEL. -Carl Buechner

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Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth.  -John Piper (Desiring God)

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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God’s conditions.  Be slow to pray.  Praying most often doesn’t get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests. -Eugene Peterson