Sunday Is For God Quotes & Sayings

To paraphrase Augustine, if you want to know your God-given gifts, first know that the purpose of spiritual gifts is to bring unity to the church. Then "love God and do what you feel like doing." But there is more to the unleashing of gifts in the body. One of the bad fruits of an "I" church is that we don't tell people when they bless us. If someone has taught Sunday school and helped us understand a passage of Scripture, then we should tell the person and encourage his or her gift. If worship leaders left us rejoicing that we have been with God's people in his presence, then thank them for the specific ways they blessed you and the church. No one should have to ask what their gifts are; we should tell people their gifts as they minister to us. Can — Edward T. Welch

Purpose is the most important thing worth living for — Sunday Adelaja

God is waiting for you to bear fruits — Sunday Adelaja

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral? — Lewis Carroll

I make a special appeal regarding how young women might dress for Church services and Sabbath worship. We used to speak of "best dress" or "Sunday dress," and maybe we should do so again. In any case, from ancient times to modern we have always been invited to present our best selves inside and out when entering the house of the Lord - and a dedicated LDS chapel is a "house of the Lord." Our clothing or footwear need never be expensive, indeed should not be expensive, but neither should it appear that we are on our way to the beach. When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we should be as comely and respectful, as dignified and appropriate as we can be. We should be recognizable in appearance as well as in behavior that we truly are disciples of Christ, that in a spirit of worship we are meek and lowly of heart, that we truly desire the Savior's Spirit to be with us always. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Success is guaranteed for any person who does the will of God. Success is fulfilling God's will on earth. — Sunday Adelaja

To Have An Attitude Of Thanksgiving To God Is To Bring Health For Your Spirit, Soul And Body — Sunday Adelaja

A man's main purpose in life is to find his ground, till it and care for it, bringing the Kingdom of
God there and establishing the Lordship of Jesus Christ over it. — Sunday Adelaja

God is always faithful to His principles, and for this reason He blesses the diligent — Sunday Adelaja

God is expecting us to stand in the gap between the dying earth and the heavens, for the will of God to be done on earth like it is in heaven — Sunday Adelaja

To have an encounter with God is to feel the ache of his loving heart for the redemptions of the earth — Sunday Adelaja

Worship is our rehearsal for how to live today and how to glorify God in heaven. It is not merely a Sunday morning exercise meant to make us feel good. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

The only reason God allowed all problems in our lives is for us to show others the way ou — Sunday Adelaja

So you see, Tess, this is really the story about God, the brave, and his love for his bride, you. He gave everything he had for you, including that which he loves the most, Jesus. Not because you do anything great, but because he loves you exactly as you are. That's why he will forgive you, and you can trust him with your whole life and be his friend forever. Isn't this a neat story? I heard it last Sunday night." Tess — Sandra Byrd

The charge of blasphemy is loaded. The point is to pack a wallop behind the charge that in our worship services God simply doesn't come through for who he is. He is unwittingly belittled. For those who are stunned by the indescribable magnitude of what God has made, not to mention the infinite greatness of the One who made it, the steady diet on Sunday morning of practical how-to's and psychological soothing and relational therapy and tactical planning seem dramatically out of touch with Reality - the God of overwhelming greatness. — John Piper

To abandon your love for God is to disregard his command — Sunday Adelaja

God brought me to Himself at about the age of 4. My parents were devout believers and my Dad was in Bible College at the time. I remember hearing the gospel in Sunday School and I talked to my Mom about it one night before bed. It was clear to me that I was a sinner and I was not going to heaven if I died without accepting Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for me. I was brought to Christ out of fear of going to hell. I didn't want to go there if I died and there was only one other choice in my mind as a 4 year old. I wanted to go to heaven. It was and is that simple. — Ben Zobrist

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected. — Alan Dershowitz

God is looking for God revealers and God carriers — Sunday Adelaja

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him — Sunday Adelaja

Wisdom is the means that God has chosen for the Church of Jesus Christ to transform the
world and put to shame all the principalities and powers of hell. — Sunday Adelaja

There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God's potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God. — Sunday Adelaja

For a man to subdue a man is to defile God's purpose — Sunday Adelaja

Keeping the commandments is a result of having love for God. — Sunday Adelaja

Everything you do that glorifies the name of the Lord and is according to the Word of God, is a good work for Him — Sunday Adelaja

It is important for the children of God to know their active civil position in critical times in their country — Sunday Adelaja

There is no alternative to doing good, if we desire for God to be good to us. — Sunday Adelaja

Living for God is always meaningful and protected. — Sunday Adelaja

Whoever is willing to sacrifice his life for God will always be under God's protection — Sunday Adelaja

The most revolutionary aspect of the Protestant teaching however, is the fact that the Protestants began to look for ways and means to serve God better through inventions, discoveries, researches, sciences, factories, industries, etc. — Sunday Adelaja

A Christian has no right to separate his life into two realms... to say the Bible is good for Sunday, but this is a week-day question, or the Scriptures are right in matters of religion, but this is a matter of business or politics. God reigns over all, everywhere. His will is the supreme law. His inspired Word, loyally read will inform us of His will in every relation and act of life, secular as well as religious; and the man is a traitor who refuses to walk therein with scrupulous care. The kingdom of God includes all sides of human life, and it is a kingdom of absolute righteousness. You are wither a loyal subject, or a traitor. When the King comes, how will He find you doing? — Archibald Alexander Hodge

Worship gatherings are not always spectacular, but they are always supernatural. And if a church looks for or works for the spectacular, she may miss the supernatural. If a person enters a gathering to be wowed with something impressive, with a style that fits him just right, with an order of service and song selection designed just the right way, that person may miss the supernatural presence of God. Worship is supernatural whenever people come hungry to respond, react, and receive from God for who He is and what He has done. A church worshipping as a Creature of the Word doesn't show up to perform or be entertained; she comes desperate and needy, thirsty for grace, receiving from the Lord and the body of Christ, and then gratefully receiving what she needs as she offers her praise-the only proper response to the God who saves us. — Matt Chandler

To Have An Undying Hunger For God Is To Continually Proclaim His Demands Of Love — Sunday Adelaja

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God — Sunday Adelaja

The compensation we receive from employment is not enough for the time being wasted — Sunday Adelaja

Embrace the common: a Sunday afternoon watching sports, Starbucks with a friend, cooking dinner for a neighbor, taking the dog for a walk, heading to a job that is making you more humble and needy because it is so unfulfilling, or working through conflict with a friend you have offended. This and more is all part of it. So do your everyday and your ordinary. Godliness is found and formed in those places. No man or woman greatly used by God has escaped them. Great men and women of God have transformed the mundane, turning neighborhoods into mission fields, parenting into launching the next generation of God's voices, legal work into loving those most hurting, waiting tables into serving and loving in such a way that people see our God. — Jennie Allen

Like God
Gumbo is hard
to get right
& I don't bother
asking for it outside
my mother's house.
Like life, there's no one
way to do it,
& a hundred ways,
from here to Sunday,
to get it dead wrong. — Kevin Young

It is not God's business to bring security to people but it is our business to provide security for ourselves out of what he has given us. — Sunday Adelaja

The body is given to us by God for the fulfillment of His plan. — Sunday Adelaja

The only way for God to conquer the world is through the human flesh and through His spirit — Sunday Adelaja

They were streetwalkers, women who sold themselves for money to men- good, God-fearing men who went to church with their wives the following Sunday without a care. — Chris Priestley

Life for God and His will is always beneficial as it guarantees God's blessings. — Sunday Adelaja

It is easy for those who know God to adapt to new changes. — Sunday Adelaja

Humility and brokenness before God is the key for Him to dwell in us. — Sunday Adelaja

There is no love for God without love for man — Sunday Adelaja

It doesn't matter how hard the world tries to get the sons of God, everything is turned around for their good — Sunday Adelaja

In London the slaughter of the innocents goes on on a scale more stupendous than any before in the history of the world. And equally stupendous is the callousness of the people who believe in Christ, acknowledge God, and go to church regularly on Sunday. For the rest of the week they riot about on the rents and profits which come to them from the East End stained with the blood of the children. Also, at times, so peculiarly are they made, they will take half a million of these rents and profits and send it away to educate the black boys of the Soudan. — Jack London

For God's kingdom to be established there is a prototype — Sunday Adelaja

People who have experienced limited amount of success could be intimidated into thinking that it is not the will of God for them to increase — Sunday Adelaja

I was six years old when my mother died. For a long time afterward, the sweet and earthy magnolia scent of her would permeate my dreams. No matter what I was dreaming about, good or frightening, my mother's smell would waft through my nighttime adventures, infusing them with her unseen presence, reassuring me even through their darkest moments. I never told anyone about this. I felt that, somehow, my mother had found a way to communicate with me from heaven even though I knew from the down-to-earth practicality of my Baptist Sunday School lessons that it was likely impossible. Still, I have heard it said more than once that with God, nothing is impossible. Is it so hard to imagine that He, in His infinite compassion, might have, for a moment in time, comforted a scared little girl with her mother's familiar scent? — Earlene Fowler

One cannot speak about love for God and neighbor without having a standard of communication, respect, honor, and without understanding how precious every human being is. — Sunday Adelaja

There are times we need a hug. A prayer. A listening ear. The tricky part is that it's not always easy to know when those times will come along. So God made a plan for us to gather, to not neglect meeting together.9 That happens in church, at Sunday school, and in Bible studies, and it happens in our homes - those times when we regularly gather to strengthen the spiritual safety net we all need. — Susie Davis

For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God — Sunday Adelaja

On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return. — Annie Dillard

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can? — Henrietta C. Mears

God is not to be blamed for your inability to fulfill your destiny — Sunday Adelaja

Without God's help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed — Sunday Adelaja

There is no honor for God without honor for His people — Sunday Adelaja

I have more respect for the devil than for some preachers I have met; the devil believes the Bible is the Word of God! — Billy Sunday

For me, my stories are spiritual journeys, and whenever I write, it's a form of worship. It's a form of my worship. Worship is not just Sunday morning as we all know. Worship is everything we do. Writing is most definitely a form of worship for me and, God as I'm writing, He takes me on these journeys. — Tamera Alexander

The singular reason for calamities, destructions, failures and devastations is seen in ignorance of Gods people. — Sunday Adelaja

God himself is pleading through us for people to be reconciled to him, if we prepare our body for him — Sunday Adelaja

To experience a great result is for everyone to be part of extending the reign of God's love — Sunday Adelaja

If you are God's, there is nothing impossible for you — Sunday Adelaja

The only way for God to take over the world is to live in human flesh by His spirit — Sunday Adelaja

If we realize our responsibility before God for our life, we will understand how valuable time is for us. — Sunday Adelaja

Everything that God gives to us is to be used for the establishing of His Kingdom here on earth. — Sunday Adelaja

I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can't think of any other word for it. I was thinking about the beach poem again, and I started to feel that I was being looked after, that everything was OK. It was strange: if there was ever a time in my life when I had the right to feel alone this was it. But I lost that sense of loneliness. I felt like there was a force in the room with me, not a person, but I had a sense that there was another world, another dimension, and it would be looking after me. It was like, This isn't the only world, this is just one aspect of the whole thing, don't imagine this is all there is. — John Marsden

A worshiping community is made up of individuals whose lives are centered around the Savior they worship together each week. A worshiping community expects to encounter God's presence not only on Sunday morning but every day. A worshiping community recognizes that passionate times of singing God's praise flow from and lead to passionate lives lived for the glory of Jesus Christ. — Bob Kauflin

Suffering for the sake of attaining God's goal is good. It should be received with joy — Sunday Adelaja

Becoming an object of worship is to serve God for what you can get from him — Sunday Adelaja

Living for God is the highest form of life. — Sunday Adelaja

The Protestants of old go to work not just for the money, their biggest motivation for work is service to God and man. Not the interest to gain profit or make money. — Sunday Adelaja

The thing that breaks the heart of God and makes him to cry out of frustration for his men and their whereabouts is when equity has been squeezed out of the public square — Sunday Adelaja

Man is not made for the Sabbath. Rather, the Sabbath is made for man — Sunday Adelaja

The most important condition necessary for our success is to have a sincere love for God — Sunday Adelaja

The scripture is clear that we have a capacity for love because of God's love for us — Sunday Adelaja

As women are taking an active part in pressing on the consideration of Congress many narrow sectarian measures, such as more rigid Sunday laws, the stopping of travel, the distribution of the mail on that day, and the introduction of the name of God into the Constitution; and as this action on the part of some women is used as an argument for the disfranchisement of all, I hope this convention will declare that the Woman Suffrage Association is opposed to all union of Church and State, and pledges itself as far as possible to maintain the secular nature of our Government. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

If the mountain remains standing, it is useless to pray endlessly. God is waiting for you to do something yourself. — Sunday Adelaja

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land — Sunday Adelaja

Work is an instrument for fulfilling purpose — Sunday Adelaja

Everything God has given to us is "for rent." We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God. — Sunday Adelaja

We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

God is not supposed to fix the earth, he created man for that. — Sunday Adelaja

We tend to think that God doesn't struggle with mundane things like frustrations and anger. But one of his major points of frustrations is WHEN there is no man to stand for justice, fairness and equity — Sunday Adelaja

Life without defeat is a reality for everyone who has learned to walk in the wisdom of the
Word of God! — Sunday Adelaja

Don't expect a reward for what you do, from people, rather what matters is how you walk and are valued by God — Sunday Adelaja

Faith is more than a matter of heart alone. The unique position of Transfiguration Sunday and its beautiful theophanies declares that the mountain is never the end of the journey. God does not gather us together just for a divine fireworks display, God always has something to say, usually something to ask. BRIAN ERICKSON — Kathleen Long Bostrom

The only thing God wants is for us to give ourselves/bodies over Him — Sunday Adelaja

God's plan is for every believer to be married to Christ — Sunday Adelaja

God's purpose for our lives is our calling — Sunday Adelaja

For the past thirty-nine years since I had graduated from college, I had called my parents on Sundays. They had expected and looked forward to the ritual. After Dad died, I still called Mom on Sundays. Most of the time I dreaded the call because she had become more and more insular and was full of complaints about the assisted living facility, the other residents, her health, everything. She had become narrow in her interests in life, more negative, more critical, and unhappier. I was reminded of something I had heard from a psychologist about what happens as we age. He said we become more of who we are, not less. Our energy to fight back the negative attributes we all possess is not as strong as we get older. So we can become more cantankerous, more irritable. I also remembered what my father had often said: "There but for the grace of God go I." That Sunday I placed the — Janis Heaphy Durham

Lordship" petition: It is asking God to extend his royal power over every part of our lives - emotions, desires, thoughts, and commitments. It is reminiscent of Thomas Cranmer's "collect" for the fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, "that we may obtain that which thou dost promise, make us to love that which thou dost command." We are asking God to so fully rule us that we want to obey him with all our hearts and with joy. — Timothy Keller

My dear young friends, I want to invite you to "dare to love". Do not desire anything less for your life than a love that is strong and beautiful and that is capable of making the whole of your existence a joyful undertaking of giving yourselves as a gift to God and your brothers and sisters, in imitation of the One who vanquished hatred and death for ever through love (cf. Rev 5:13).
Love is the only force capable of changing the heart of the human person and of all humanity, by making fruitful the relations between men and women, between rich and poor, between cultures and civilizations. (Message for the 22nd World Youth Day: Palm Sunday, 1 April 2007) — Pope Benedict XVI

The purpose of learning is not to give exams in class and forget about it, but to increase the knowledge until they possess an area of the earth for God almighty — Sunday Adelaja

It does not matter the evil you have experienced in your life, it is not God's plan for you to be unhappy — Sunday Adelaja

The church is called to activate the position of the believers in saving the nation for God's glory — Sunday Adelaja

Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised — Sunday Adelaja

The main condition for our success is undoubtedly for us to abide in God — Sunday Adelaja

The primary criterion for determining our walk with God is the knowledge of His love. — Sunday Adelaja