Derwin Quotes & Sayings

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous. — Derwin L. Gray

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them. — Derwin L. Gray

I never really drove a cab, but I do have a hack license in case of emergencies - like no money. — Harry Chapin

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it. — Derwin L. Gray

Our time on earth is entrusted to us for a specific mission. — Sunday Adelaja

The truth is, we do not have addiction problems. We have misdirected worship. I'm convinced every human being is in recovery and being weaned from some form of addiction because of idolatry. Your addiction or mine may not have us eating out of trash cans, but our sin habit is hurting and diminishing God's glory in our lives. — Derwin L. Gray

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult. — Francis Spufford

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become. — Derwin L. Gray

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score. — Derwin L. Gray

Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed. — R.N. Prasher

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles. — Derwin L. Gray

I have moles and freckles, and they irritate me. They are an insecurity of mine, and I wish I could have clear, beautiful skin. — Khloe Kardashian

We are all descended from cavemen who broke the skulls of their enemies with rocks for fun or profit. But that hardly mitigates the crimes of a man who does the same thing today. I see no problem judging the behavior of the Islamic State and its apologists from the vantage point of the West's high horse, because we've earned the right to sit in that saddle. — Jonah Goldberg

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime. — Derwin L. Gray

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus. — Derwin L. Gray

Substance and content over style and hype any day. — Derwin L. Gray

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me. — Chuck Pagano

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride. — Derwin L. Gray

Kindness is all we have to give others — Kimberley Freeman

We need the stars ... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars ... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness. — Octavia Butler

Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge. — Bruce Schneier

You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you. — Derwin L. Gray

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools. — Derwin L. Gray

A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how we see ourselves determines how we live ... A destructive label leads to a destructive life. There is a soul thief, a dark enemy, who wants to nail ruinous labels to your heart so that he can steal your life. Jesus wants to give you life giving labels that release your potential for the good of the world. — Derwin L. Gray

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous. — Derwin L. Gray

Dad hit lecture mode from word one. — Devon Monk

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits. — Derwin L. Gray

People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances. — Derwin L. Gray

In handling men, your own feelings are the only ones that are of no importance. I don't mean by this that you want to sacrifice your self-respect, but you must keep in mind that the bigger the position the broader the man must be to fill it. And a diet of courtesy and consideration gives girth to a boss. — George Horace Lorimer

Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field. — Jane Smiley

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore. — Carrie Fisher