TweetWords – July 31, 2011

Rick Warren
– The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.
– Preachers: You’re never persuasive when you’re abrasive.
Respect your hearers. „PLEASANT words promote instruction” Pr.16:21

Leonard Ravenhill
We are seeking blessing, we are seeking success, we are seeking ministry, God is seeking sacrifice!

A W Tozer
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and does not ask anythingin return. It comes out of a pure heart.

John Piper
The path of escape from the devil is not geographic. (John 17:15)

TweetWords – July 30, 2011

Leonard Ravenhill
Preaching is not a profession, its a passion!

C. S. Lewis
Of all the bad men, religious bad men are the worst.

Charles Spurgeon
Lord, smite our rocky hearts, and make the waters flow.

Rick Warren
Don’t try to be better than others. Be better than you are right now.

TweetWords – July 29, 2011

Leonard Ravenhill
Only maturity knows love.

Charles Spurgeon
I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

A W Tozer
– God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

J.C. Ryle
Let your aim be every year to be more holy – to know more, to feel more, to see more of the fullness of Christ.

TweetWords – July 28, 2011

Rick Warren
Friend, you need Jesus as your Lord & Savior not because you’ll die tonight but because you’ve got to live tomorrow.

A W Tozer
– What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
– God never loses heart. Never.

D. A. Carson
At the heart of your aspirations should be the advance of the Gospel.

J.C. Ryle
If we want to be eminently happy, we must strive to be eminently holy.

John Piper
Lord, awaken every Tweet reader to the profound wickedness of the slightest preference of anything over You!

TweetWords – July 27, 2011

Rick Warren
– You’ll never understand yourself fully. But you can get to know Jesus who does understand you fully and still loves you.
– It’s stupid to assume we know the motivations of other’s hearts. We don’t know our own motivations most of the time.
– If you always give „a piece of your mind” to those who irritate you, you soon have none left. Be better.

A W Tozer
We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is.

D. A. Carson
When true revival dawns, resentments are dissolved. When revivalcomes, self-promotion is seen as ugly, and withers away.

J.C. Ryle
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm.

TweetWords – July 26, 2011

Rick Warren
– Never engage those who insult you online. They’re just looking for a fight, not clarity.
– Jealousy is caused by selfishness, not love.
– Whenever I think I understand it all, I realize I haven’t been listening.

A W Tozer
I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him.

J.C. Ryle
You are never a loser with Christ.

John Piper
If authorities tell you not to speak of Jesus, say with Peter, We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard. Acts 4:20

TweetWords – July 25, 2011

Rick Warren
– Planting a church by attracting disgruntled believers is one of the stupidest ideas I’ve heard, for a dozen reasons.
– Pastor, you attract what you are. If you’re cranky, folks who love to argue and fight will fill the church. If you gossip, they will!
– Inventing a theology to justify my failure is sin. „People ruin themselves by their own stupid actions then blame God.” Pr. 19:3
– Pastor, God called you to feed and lead His sheep, not corral goats.

A W Tozer
– When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it solves a great deal of anxiety.
– Nothing’s easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross; nothing’s harder than actually doing it.

J.C. Ryle
Holiness comes from Christ. It is the result of vital union with Him. It is the fruit of being a living branch of the true Vine.

C. S. Lewis
– You can’t really be so well-adjusted to your world if it ends by nailing you up to a stake of wood.
– Evil comes from the abuse of free will.

TweetWords – July 24, 2011

Rick Warren
– Music styles are languages. It takes all kinds of languages to communicate God’s love to all kinds of people.
– Authenicity is NOT a style of music. What makes music authentic is the character of the musician playing it.
– Churches have a million times more local connections around the world than any news agency or govt. could dream of having.
– Street vendors know a brand LABEL doesn’t guarantee an item is genuine. It’s also true for those claiming to be Christians.

J.C. Ryle
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive, wakeful reading.

C. S. Lewis
– No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed.
– You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness.

Oswald Chambers
The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives.

TweetWords – July 23, 2011

Rick Warren
– A lie can travel around the globe before the truth puts on its shoes.
– Refusing to even LISTEN to another view because you KNOW you’re right reveals pride and your deep fear that you MIGHT be wrong.
– Having counseled 1000s of people as a pastor I’ve observed that the first 100 years of life are the toughest.

Oswald Chambers
Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation.

Leonard Ravenhill
The only vision many of you have is television.

Charles Spurgeon
Humility is the proper estimate of oneself.

TweetWords – July 22, 2011

Leonard Ravenhill
Christians spend more money on dog food every year than they do on missions.

Charles Spurgeon
– Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father’s palace.
– Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
– Discernment is telling the difference between right and almost right.

D. A. Carson
You are not what you think you are, but what you think, you are.

Rick Warren
Happiness is a choice. You are as happy as you choose to be.