Quotes Tagged "faith"

That sense of inferiority is just another word for fear. And fear is simply the self-deception that you are about to be separated from the thing you most value.

The greatest loss is the loss of one’s calling because we were listening to the wrong voices.

The difference between world changers and stagnant drifters comes down to the ability to focus on opportunities, and then seize them.

God can show you where to capture the fish, but you have to cast the net.

Intimidation isn’t pretty. It compels you to compare yourself to everything and everyone else.

Sharks will try to steal your time and intention, but you have to protect your focus. Keep your eyes on Jesus! He will carry you through persecution to victory!

Intimidation keeps your eye on you and conveys that image to others.

When a shark has influence in your life, it makes you want to stay in the boat.

People will criticize the very thing God has called you to do, saying it seems impossible to them, or too hard for them- but that’s why God called you to do it, not them.

Conquering can give you courage.

Lord I don’t want to be relevant in the industry by shading, hurting and ruining other people’s lives, career and reputation, for the sake of likes, retweets and comments. Help me to make it, because of my hard work, education, talent, skills and support from people, not because I have dragged others down.

Sometimes people will misjudge your heart or what God has called you to do, but it’s not between you and them, it’s between you and God. When we stay focused on the call of God for our lives, He is able to create a legacy for us beyond anything we could have hoped or imagined!

Praying is the purest of all pleasures.

We can’t sacrifice the will of God for the approval of people.

Now if we are always falling back on these 'if-it-be-Thy-will prayers' we are debasing this most well known prayer promise of the apostle John, and making it a prayer 'let-out', a useful carpet under which we can sweep all our unanswered prayers. We imply that what he is really saying is this: 'And this is the lack of confidence which we have in Him, that unless we happen to ask according to His will, He will not hear us, and we shall not have our petition.' So the promise that was intended to confirm our faith serves only to cover our unbelief and to confirm us in our state of weakness, in seeking to prevail with God.

Fear will keep you grounded in the wrong way; take the leap and soar.

We have to fight the battle for our destinies, not the battle for approval.

If the thoughts are not here today just walk away and wait to write another day.

Many of the “scientific” or scholarly ideas about Jesus paraded in the media every Christmas and Easter are increasingly obsolete, based on assumptions, theories and unproven hypotheses that are, in some cases, more than a century old and which have been superseded by more recent research.

....This is what sages, leaders, scientists, thinkers, and the brave souls of the past have done. They shifted and molded consciousness, actively transforming societies. They followed the impulse. They listened to the request to dialogue with the future. They consciously or unconsciously accepted their roles as midwives for the new....