Top 100 Dillon Burroughs Quotes
#1. We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.
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#2. The church is not a campus but a community. Pastors are not CEOs; they are shepherds.
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#3. Be willing to be unliked and ridiculed in order to speak the words of the One who matters most.
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#4. Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.
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#5. Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
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#6. God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.
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#7. No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life.
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#8. When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.
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#9. Change the world today. Start with the next person you meet.
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#10. Jesus rejoices in even the smallest gifts to His children.
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#11. God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him.
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#12. If your heart is still beating, God is not done with you yet.
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#13. God may allow a disturbance, but we don't have to be disturbed by it.
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#14. How you live today has the potential to impact all eternity.
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#15. When we first come to faith in Christ, we often think it was simply of our own choosing. Only later do we realize we would have never taken that step of faith apart from His grace drawing us near to Him.
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#17. The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.
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#18. There is no secret formula
only a life committed to a close walk with God.
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#20. If I came to your town and asked any person on the street, "Which church should I go to if I want to get involved in helping the poor or homeless in this community?" would your church be the first one mentioned? Make this identity your goal.
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#21. As we work together as a team, God grows our dreams into something greater than we can accomplish alone.
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#23. The world tells us to find the power within ourselves. God's Word teaches otherwise. It is the Lord's power that gives the ability to overcome.
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#24. The poor are not a problem but rather an opportunity to show unconditional love.
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#25. [God's] love for us was displayed most clearly through the cross of Christ. There our Lord stretched out His bloodstained hands to say, I love you this much!
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#26. If we wish to truly experience a life that makes an eternal difference, the power within us is not enough. It is the power God offers that matters.
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#27. If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.
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#28. When God shows up and the unexplainable happens, don't attempt to explain it as something you did. Tell the story of how God has worked through you to change lives by His grace.
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#29. Trust is tough. Once trust has been broken by multiple people on multiple occasions, believing in anyone or anything becomes increasingly difficult. Much of the skepticism of our world can be traced back to broken trust.
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#30. We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.
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#31. When we ask God to transform those who oppose us, we are also asking God to transform us.
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#32. When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.
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#33. To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.
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#34. God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.
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#35. God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.
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#36. God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time
His time.
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#39. It is foolish to hold tightly to material possessions. We do not own them, but they can own us.
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#40. God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.
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#41. Even in our own lives, we often struggle with a God who is real, who created us, who cares for us, and desires to know us. Yet from the start, God has made clear that you and I are made in his image, on purpose and for a purpose.
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#43. Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him.
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#44. You are fooling yourself if you have read the Bible from cover to cover and you do not care more for the lost and hurting and broken than you did before you read it.
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#45. To delight in the law of the Lord is to find our source of joy outside of ourselves.
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#47. God's strength makes us strong; His comfort comforts us. With Him, we no longer run; we rest.
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#48. Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of groups of people who love Jesus?
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#49. Jesus came to give us life. We don't have to hang on a cross like he did. For him, it was a sacrifice. For us, it is a gift.
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#50. The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
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#51. The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one.
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#52. It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
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#53. What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?
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#56. Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.
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#57. Let us join Him in accomplishing His will today rather than our own.
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#58. Then I read that Jesus was a friend of sinners. This still bothers me. Not because Jesus was a friend of sinners (because that came in really handy in my case). It bothered me because if I'm trying to live like Jesus, that means I'm supposed to be a friend of sinners too.
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#59. If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong.
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#61. Our greatest need is not for a better income or a more appealing body, but for salvation.
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#62. Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is never a rush to the next meeting or the next message.
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#63. Let us not question whether God is there; let us praise Him that He is there.
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#64. The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.
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#65. God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.
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#67. Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.
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#68. Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.
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#69. Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution; see Him as your eternal Savior.
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#70. May we show great concern to those of great concern to God.
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#71. God's road for us may not be one that appears successful from our human vantage point, yet serves as part of his divine plan to fulfill his purposes in our lives.
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#72. Atheism is not a matter of the mind; it is a matter of the heart.
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#73. It is not the size of our problems but the size of our God that matters most.
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#74. Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.
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#75. You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.
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#76. Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.
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#78. The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
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#79. In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.
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#80. We are called both to live pure lives and to take the good news to those in greatest need.
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#81. Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.
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#82. God's will isn't always written in the sky, but it is clearly written in His Word.
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#83. Our reactions reflect our repentance. Our practices reveal our priorities. Changed lives change lives.
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#84. When God gives you a passion for a particular cause, there is a reason for it, and that reason is not to keep it to yourself. You are called to be a representative for those in need.
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#85. True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.
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#86. There is nothing we could ever do to make God love us more; there is nothing we can do to make Him love us less.
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#87. Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.
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#88. Your attitude toward Scripture can reveal your attitude toward the Savior. When your passion for God's Word runs high, your passion for God does as well.
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#89. When we face impossible odds, let us not look at the size of our problem; let us look at the size of our God.
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#90. We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.
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#91. Don't settle for helping those who will help you in return or doing a good deed for others to see. Help others without expecting anything back. Even if nobody else cares, God will notice.
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#92. Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.
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#93. Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.
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#94. Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.
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#95. Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.
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#96. The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.
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#97. When you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activity ... it is a gift from God.
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#98. Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.
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#100. God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.
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