"Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours." J.I. Packer
"Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other." ~Matthew Henry
"If I had my choice in selecting teachers for any activity of a local church, I would not first seek those who have the greatest academic credentials. I would seek a person who is open and responsive, who loves Jesus Christ, and who is growing." ~Larry Richards
"We can build influence by self promotion, but God will only promote those who do not promote themselves. That which is built on self-promotion will have to be maintained by human striving. Those who allow God to build the house have taken a yoke that is easy and a burden is light." ~Rick Joyner
"If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know nothing of Calvary love." ~Amy Carmichael
"It is of primary importance that the preacher should be clothed in the garment of salvation; that he should be filled with a sense of the immense worth of the truth, the guilt, depravity, and danger man is in; the unsearchable love of Christ in the bloody purchase, and his ability and willingness to save redeemed pentitents. Without this robe, he will preach a distant Jesus, by unfelt gospel, and with an unhallowed tongue." ~John Leland
"When we are engaged in His work we are very close to Christ. We are expending our anxiety and affections on the same objects on which His heart is set." ~James Stalker
"God can never entrust His kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armor of darkness itself." ~Frances Frangipane
"You can operate your business without Christ. You can make it run well. You can raise your family without Christ. You can even pastor a church without Christ. But if you do, you will find that there will be no fruit, no Christlikeness, no manifestation of that beautiful character which arrests the attention of others. Instead there will be a sham, a phony imitation of the real thing, which will drive people away from Christ and will produce nothing but a dull, mechanical religiosity." ~Ray C. Stedman
"You must not lose confidence in God because you lost confidence in your pastor. If our confidence in God had to depend upon our confidence in any human person, we should be on shifting sand." ~Francis A. Schaeffer
"Many people think that the mark of an authentic Christian is doctrinal purity; if a person's belief are biblical and doctrinally orthodox, then he is a Christian. People who equate orthodoxy with authenticity find it hard to even consider the possibility that, despite the correctness of all their doctrinal positions, they may have missed the deepest reality of the authentic Christian life. But we must never forget that true Chrisianity is more than teaching-it is a way of life. In fact, it is life itself. "He who has the Son has life," remember? When we talk about life, we are talking about something that is far more than mere morality, far more than doctrinal accuracy."
~Ray C. Stedman
"From every pulpit in the land it needs to be thundered forth that God still lives, that God still observes,...still reigns. Faith is now in the crucible, it is being tested by fire, and there is no fixed...resting place for the heart and mind and the Throne of God. What is needed now, as never before, is a full, positive, constructive setting forth of the Godhood of God."
~Arthur W. Pink
"I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me thte gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances." ~Lester Sumrall
"When a church seeks a pastor, they want the strength of an eagle, the grace of a swan, the gentleness of a dove, the friendliness of a sparrow, the night hours of an owl. And when they catch that bird, they expect the pastor to live on the food of a canary." ~Unknown
