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The Acts of the Apostles happened because the Apostles acted. – Smith Wigglesworth

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. – Karl Barth

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. – Max Lucado

If you’re not courageous, you’re going to be hanging around the water cooler, talking about the guy who actually is.
- Phil Cooke

When the PRAYER MEETING becomes the MOST IMPORTANT MEETING, the church is on the verge of revival.
- Mark Batterson

Sometimes the only thing you have to hold onto is the Word of God. – Bishop Ken Ulmer

Before you can get a prophetic voice, you must get a circumcised ear. – Rick Pino

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. – William Penn

I have been made dust. Pour your living water on me to make me clay. Place me on the potters wheel and make me new. You make beautiful things. – Ben Davis

Real identity is not found in what we do for Christ. It is found in Christ. – EncounterGeneration

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie. – Bill Johnson

When a problem arises, whether personal or otherwise, I work to remain conscious of the Spirit of God upon me. If the problem gets bigger than my awareness of the Holy Spirit, I will react to the problem. Living in reaction to the devil gives him too much influence over our lives. We must live as Jesus did – doing what the Father is doing. Living in response to God is far superior than living in reaction to the devil. – Bill Johnson

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer. – F.B. Meyer

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work. – Oswald Chanbers

Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. – Francis J. Spellman

The enemy lies to us to make problems appear bigger than the solutions we carry. – Bill Johnson

A team with something to play for can be dangerous. But a team with someone to play for is unstoppable. – Brey Cook (Arkanasas player remembering teammate Garrett Uekman)

We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone…. [We] have imitated the world, sought popular favor, manufactured delights to substitute for the joy of the Lord and produced a cheap and synthetic power to substitute for the power of the Holy Ghost. – A.W. Tozer

Methodologies dont change nations; men & women on fire do. -Thomas Dubay

I don’t fast to pay a price. The price has been paid. I fast to refine my focus so that I might more fully apprehend all that has been purchased. – Bill Johnson

Unity is not defined by our perfection with one another. Unity is our commitment to abiding relationship with one another even with our imperfections. – EncounterGeneration

The tipping point-that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. – M. Gladwell

Spiritual awakening will be slow to germinate in minds crowded with negative thinking. – John Paul Jackson

You just cannot be happy if at the center of your world is you. – Joyce Meyer

Success requires us to go beyond the initial excitement of a project and finish what we start. Enthusiasm must be tempered with determination for dreams to become reality. The main difference between success and failure lies in the ability to finish what you start. The world is filled with starters but lacking in finishers. – David Cooper

I hope you’ll let God expand and stretch you so that you can participate in whatever ‘new thing He wants to do through you. I hope you’ll follow your holy discontent wherever it takes you, whenever it takes you there…
- Bill Hybels, Holy Discontent

God is the only one we can surrender to without losing ourselves. – Richard Rohr

Worshipers can be trusted to go through a Valley of Weeping because they’ll turn it into a Resort. (Ps. 84:6)
- Bill Johnson

This is hope: This morning we awoke one day closer to him wiping away every tear from our eyes. – Brian McCormack

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one. – John Wooden

It is a dangerous thing when ministry becomes the source looked to for identity or for a sense of belonging and acceptance or as an avenue for proving oneself. Identity and belonging come from God, and our primary ambition is the glory of Christ. Ministry is the emptying of oneself not the filling up of oneself. We are filled in the presence of God.
- EncounterGeneration.com

When everyone wants to be a leader, you get conflict, not progress. But a church full of servants will have unity & growth. – Rick Warren

When Jesus said, ‘Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand,’ He was saying that the sorrow over sin must produce a change in our thinking. The shift in perspective must continue until His Kingdom comes into view. The purpose of repentance is to get us to turn from an inferior reality (sin) to the superior reality (the Kingdom) until that Kingdom is visible to our faith. – Bill Johnson

Religion is hanging around the cross. Relationship is getting on the cross. – Keith Lindsey

Take your eyes off yourself for just one minute…and it will change your life. – Dave Ramsey

The greater the opposing wind, the higher an eagle flies. The enlarging of your capacity for rising to greater levels requires encountering a measure of resistance that demands endurance to overcome. The eagle doesn’t avoid contrary winds; it positions itself in the face of those winds and then stretches its wings to turn adversity into an opportunity for lift and leverage. Face the wind! Stretch! Mount up! Ascend! – Mark Chironna

If we were able to achieve our calling in our own strength, we would readily take and receive the glory. But when we stand at the base of an impossible mountain, shaking in our boots, knowing full well our legs could never carry us to the summit, we are forced to rely on God and praise him for every step he enables us to take along the way.
- Megan Miller

Is there any challenge in your life right now that is large enough that you have no hope of doing it apart from God’s help? If not, consider the possibility that you are seriously under challenged. – John Ortberg

Dreams are always dangerous because no one says, “My dream is to keep things exactly the same.” Dreams = change and change is scary. Be dangerous. – Jonathan Acuff

Charles Spurgeon was asked, ‘How do you defend the Bible?’ He answered, ‘Very easy. The same way I defend a lion. I simply let it out of its cage.’ – Charles Spurgeon

If Jesus chose to be born and to lay in a place where animals fed, then no person, from the one laying in the gutter to the one crying in their bed, is in a place so low that Jesus is not willing to both come and meet them there in that place and to show them the way out. – EncounterGeneration.com

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won’t move many mountains. – Bill Johnson

Passion for holiness is not a contradiction to a passion for mercy. Holiness that fails to offer radical love & mercy is a self-righteous legalism that is not holiness at all. Love is the fulfillment of holiness. It’s what lets the world know we follow Jesus. But where purity is absent, there is not real love nor the power to be a genuine witness. Love & holiness cannot be their authentic self without the other. – EncounterGeneration.com

Revival is going to come because somebody in your generation is willing to pay the price. – Jack Hayford

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

The road to fulfilling any God-given dream is not marked by perfection, but by perseverance. We will make mistakes. But God…Love that phrase…but God! – EncounterGeneration.com

Widespread revival is most powerful and most likely in the place of unity. Somewhere, there are other Christians whose influence stretches into avenues of our culture where we do not reach. We bottle up and cap the work of the Spirit when we limit His work to the outstretch of our own little “empire.” It’s God’s Kingdom, and His prayer was that we be one. – EncounterGeneration.com

The big error young leaders make is thinking leadership is about the leader. It’s NOT about you! It’s about those you serve. – Rick Warren

Often in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is. – Anne Graham Lotz

An unhealthy climate on a church staff is likely caused by being afraid to say the last 10% of difficult truth to each other.
- Rick Warren

Entertain the possibility that the thing you need to do next to grow in your faith is NOT reading another book.
- Brian McCormack

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions we make everyday are of such infinite import. – CS Lewis

Pride is a spiritual cancer: It eats up the very possibilty of love, or contentment, or even common sense. – CS Lewis

The pattern of the Cross means that the world’s glorification of power, might, and status is exposed and defeated. On the Cross Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away. Jesus Christ turns the values of the world upside down. – Tim Keller

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford

The end of an era is not the completion of a destiny. – Brian Houston

Don’t try to figure out your assignment until you figure out your alignment. – Steve Kelly

People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less. – Blanchard and Peale

A life of worship is not lived simply because it should be done or because it might be fashionable at the time. It is the natural, consistent and awestruck response of a soul who knows they have received mercy.
- EncounterGeneration.com on Romans 12:1

To live life trying to measure up to others, or even to God, is a prescription for misery. One of the most freeing realizations is to discover that while you failed to measure up, Christ died for you and accomplished such an amazing, complete work of forgiveness and redemption, that when you have received it, you now live in the constant reality of measuring up in the eyes of the One who matters most. – EncounterGeneration.com

The life you seek will never be found by seeking life, but only by seeking to bring glory to Christ. – M Casey

The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed. – Hudson Taylor

Unless there is an element of risk in your exploits for God there is no need for faith. – Hudson Taylor

We cannot always trace God’s hand, but we can always trust God’s heart. – Charles Spurgeon

Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is – where life and death, sin and grace, heaven and hell converge. – Unknown

If I had 1,000 lives, I’d give them all for China. – Hudson Taylor

A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t. – Charles Spurgeon

We’ve drifted way from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium. – Paul Harvey

For every 1 million Muslims in central Asia, there are only 3.4 missionaries. – via NationsBeGlad on Twitter

Substance is more important than style. Groom people to fall in love with Christ not sermons. – Steve Trevino

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. – Benjamin Franklin

We will never solve the severe problems that face our nation with our minds or our hearts, until we have first bowed our knee. For ‘the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.’ – EncounterGeneration.com on Proverbs 9:10

Your love is the anthem of nations, rings out through the ages, and You’re always enough for me. – Casting Crowns

I need Christ, not something that resembles Him. – C.S.Lewis

When God is in the camp, His presence infuses daring faith. – Charles Spurgeon

God doesn’t like being underestimated; it’s to His dishonour and our disadvantage. – Matt Redman

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever. – C.S. Lewis

Christ does not want nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible. – C.T. Studd

Whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. -John Piper

Church, we are plan A, and there is no plan B. – David Platt

If we’re going to live for the sake of 4.5 billion lost people and thousands and thousands and thousands of kids who are dying everyday because they don’t have food on their table, then that means radical change in our lives, our families and our churches. – David Platt

The essence of praising Christ is prizing Christ. – John Piper

Every year you grow, you will find Me bigger. – From Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (Aslan says this to Lucy)

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. – Edmund Burke

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. – John Piper

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things that don’t matter. – Craig Groeschel

Without worship, we go about miserable. – A.W. Tozer

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

The most glorious reason that you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the earth. – David Platt

We have a master who demands radical obedience and a mission that warrants radical urgency. And we do not have time to waste our lives living out a Christian spin on the American dream. – David Platt

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance. – C.S. Lewis

There is transparency in genuine worship. When Adam and Eve sinned, they hid themselves because they were ashamed. In authentic worship, we unveil and convey all that we are, including our flaws, because we love, depend on and trust in all that God is and all that He has done. – EncounterGeneration.com

Do we really believe that God sacrificed 100% of his son for 10% of our lives? – Christian Buckley

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength. – Corrie Ten Boom

If we form Jesus to look like us and be who we want him to be, then even when we gather together and sing our praises and lift our hands, the reality is we are not worshiping the Jesus of the Bible. We are worshiping and singing to ourselves. – David Platt

The purity of our lives is more important than the success of our ministries. – David Platt

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. – Corrie Ten Boom

God is not looking for more stars; He’s looking for more servants. – Howard G. Hendricks

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. – Johann von Goethe

I want the presence of God Himself or I don’t want to have anything at all to do with religion. – A.W. Tozer

The platform and authority to speak a message we believe in is authenticated by character people can believe in. – EncounterGeneration.com

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. – C.S. Lewis

We are called to an everlasting preoccupation with God. – A.W. Tozer

Heaven will be filled with those whom others considered to be of little value but whom God knew to be of supreme importance. – Unknown

No matter how bad life’s circumstances become, God’s character and nature is good. He cannot be or act outside of that nature. Our trust in His goodness will determine our peace in the midst of the darkest times. Even when life hurts, we KNOW a God whose goodness holds us up, and we hold tightly to a sure hope that the light of morning will soon come. – EncounterGeneration.com

An addiction to the approval of others sucks the life out of a person. It drains one’s energy and places undue stress on relationships. At the Cross and the Empty Tomb, we meet the One who forgives our sins and fills us with Himself, allowing us to hear the Father’s words once and for all: “You are my beloved son/daughter whom I love and in whom I am well pleased.” – EncounterGeneration.com

A spiritual awakening in our nation begins with a worship awakening in our heart. – EncounterGeneration.com

The test of God-given dreams is not in the dreaming, but in believing and persevering when the dream seems to fade away. – EncounterGeneration.com

We must do something about the cross, and one of two things only we can do – flee it or die upon it. – AW Tozer

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become “unity” conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. – A.W. Tozer

When we fail in love, we fail in mission. – Unknown

“Are you quiet lately or am I loud?” (Question I ask God sometimes.) – Jonathan Acuff

It’s always a mistake to decide what you’re going to do before you determine who you’re going to be. – Andy Stanley

Somewhere Charles Wesley takes a swipe at Christians bickering by saying God looks on all our ministries “with undistinguishing regard.” – via Leonard Sweet

We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. – Oswald J. Smith

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. – John Piper

As long as there are millions destitute of the Word of God and knowledge of Jesus Christ, it will be impossible for me to devote time and energy to those who have both. – J. L. Ewen

Use your ministry to build people, not people to build your ministry. – Jacquelyn K. Heasley

The small progress we have made after four or five weeks…with each other…is a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding…. In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection. Our prayers, Sir, were heard and they were graciously answered…. Have we now forgotten this powerful Friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings that ‘except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it (Psalm 127:1).’ I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. – Benjamin Franklin (Delivered when things began to go badly at the Constitutional Convention)