Top 31 Alexander Strauch Quotes
#1. Leaders who think that growth in grace comes by knowing the Word of God without doing it will produce congregations of passive Christians which resemble human beings that eat too much and exercise too little.
Alexander Strauch
#2. Good shepherds love their sheep and spare no effort when leading them to green pastures and clear water.
Alexander Strauch
#3. Amy Carmichael once said, Those who think too much of themselves don't think enough.
Alexander Strauch
#4. In every congregation, spiritual problems and physical needs exist for which the only solution is believing, persistent prayer.
Alexander Strauch
#5. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.
Morten Tyldum
#6. It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics ...
Sarah Dessen
#8. If money could motivate the merchants of England to cross death-defying oceans and enter the interior of China at great personal risk of the loss of life, could not the love of Christ motivate the missionaries to do the same for the sake of the gospel?
Alexander Strauch
#10. As Anthony Thiselton puts it, The opposite of love is not correction but indifference.
Alexander Strauch
#11. You know, we have a fiscal train wreck before us. And unless we act, and act deliberately, we're not going to enable our kids to have what we have. It's plain and simple as that.
Eric Cantor
#12. When we would consider the love of God in Christ, we are as one approaching the ocean: he casts a glance on the surface, but the depths he cannot sound. - R. C. C.
Alexander Strauch
#13. John Oman warns, unless the pulpit is the place where you are the humblest in giving God's message, it is certain to be the place where you are vainest in giving your own.
Alexander Strauch
#14. The pagan Caecilius criticized the Christians because hardly have they met when they love each other ... Indiscriminately they call each other brother and sister.
Alexander Strauch
#15. His gaze was heat across her cheeks, her lips. It was touch. His eyes were hypnotic, his brows black and velvet. He was copper and shadow, honey and menace, the severity of knife-blade cheekbones and a widow's peak like the point of a dagger.
Laini Taylor
#16. If Paul did not love the Corinthians, he would walk away from them and let them flounder in their own cesspool of sin. Instead, he is proactive. He confronts, warns, writes, visits, and even humbles himself before them (2 Cor. 2:5-10; 12:21).
Alexander Strauch
#17. When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom (Prov. 11:2;
Alexander Strauch
#18. We must understand that the local church isn't a country club or a casual self-help group. It is God's holy temple, a congregation of redeemed saints and priests who are consecrated to God. It is God's lighthouse in a dark world. It is the pillar and support of the truth.
Alexander Strauch
#19. I think when you're working with a character that another writer is acting as - for lack of a better word - custodian of, your obligation as a professional is to not do anything that violates that 'primary' take.
Greg Rucka
#20. The work of feeding and tending sheep is hard work, arduous work, and love for the sheep alone will not do it; you must have a consuming love for the Great Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Alexander Strauch
#21. Braggarts build themselves up, jealous people tear others down, but only loving people build others up.
Alexander Strauch
#22. Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was able to shed his identity.
"Skin color is a little hard to shed," she said, "it's true. But the DNA of your social class is even harder to get rid of.
Sayed Kashua
#23. My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.
John Tesh
#24. Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.
Alexander Strauch
#25. As we grow in disciplined, self-sacrificing love, so we will grow in intercessory prayer. Superficially fervent prayers devoid of such love are finally phony, hollow, shallow.5
Alexander Strauch
#26. Paul's prayer is the product of his passion for people. His unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.
Alexander Strauch
#27. If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.
Jermaine O'Neal
#28. Instructing people to obey Christ's commands is part of the Great Commission. It's not enough to teach the facts about Christ, we are to teach, exhort, and train disciples to obey and live according to the commands of Christ.
Alexander Strauch
#29. Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again."
"Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think?
James A. Owen
#30. You're not boring. You've got to stop saying that, or people will start believing you.
John Green
#31. I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
Ian Botham
