Tony Evans Quotes

When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

Faith doesn't make sense. It makes miricles.

God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

I believe that feminists of the more aggressive persuasion are frustrated women unable to find the proper male leadership. If a woman were receiving the right kind of love and attention and leadership, she would not want to be liberated from that.

When it comes to politics and elections, far too many Christians spend more time appealing to family, history and tradition, culture, racial expediency, and personal preference than they do to what the Bible teaches.

We need to make sure we are not analyzing the events in our lives from a secular, human, worldly point of view rather than from a divine, spiritual, godly point of view.

Church is not for spectators.

Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God ... he's got you covered.

What is the kingdom solution to divisions in the body of Christ along class, cultural, racial, and denominational lines? Be committed to the truth.

When you deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him, you die while you simultaneously truly live. That is when you experience the reality that "whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:25).

His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

You cannot read the Bible and ignore the political realm.

A Christian wife who may be looking good on the outside, but who cuts her husband with her words, runs him down to her friends and family, and dishonors him in the children's presence is not beautiful by God's definition.

A kingdom always includes three fundamental components: a ruler, a realm of subjects who fall under his rule, and the rules or governances.

God is the source. Everything else is a resource.

Your view of God --- How big you think He is - will decide the size of your faith.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

If I asked her in what ways you have adjusted your plans and schedule in the past month because you saw that she had a burden or a need you could help meet, would she be able to recall such times?

Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.

The reason so many believers are struggling is that we have voted in the past asking God to bless our plans rather than casting our votes based on seeking His agenda. We want God to sign off on our decisions rather than us following His.

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

If God is your problem, only God is your solution.

It's interesting that, there really is no Proverbs 31 for men in the Bible. Men need the whole Bible, women need a chapter.

Our God is sovereign. That means there's no such thing as luck. Anything that happens to you, good or bad, must pass through His fingers first. There are no accidents with God. I like the story of the cowboy who applied for health insurance. The agent routinely asked him, 'Have you ever had any accidents?' The cowboy replied, 'Well no, I've not had any accidents. I was bitten by a rattlesnake once, and a horse did kick me in the ribs. That laid me up for a while, but I haven't had any accidents.' The agent said, 'Wait a minute. I'm confused. A rattlesnake bit you, and a horse kicked you, Weren't those accidents?' 'No, they did that on purpose.

You may say, "I'd compliment him if he did something right." Well, he did at least one thing right. He married you!

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

A man who brags about satisfying 30 women is immature. A real man is one who can satisfy the same woman for 30 years.

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"

Here is the secret to your life as a kingdom woman of excellence: a short memory coupled with a clear direction. If you are going to live in excellence, you have to forget yesterday. Whether it was good, bad, or ugly, if it's yesterday, you need to let it go. When you carry yesterday further than you ought to, you ruin today. If you ruin today, then you spoil tomorrow.

Many, if not most, Christians begin with the wrong question of who they should vote for rather than the more important question of how they should vote.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Men are often reluctant to give up their wants and their agendas, when necessary, for their wives.

As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.

The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible the more chaotic things become.

Are you progressing to be more and more like Jesus Christ? Are you investing in the moment rather than being bound by yesterday or worrying about tomorrow?

If you have faith, you can do what others can't do, because you can see what others can't see.

Peace doesn't mean that you will not have problems. Peace means that your problems will not have you.

When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.

I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.

Thus marriage, like the Trinity, is a hierarchical partnership. While all parties are equal in value, essence, and significance, there is a distinction in function (hierarchy) in order to fulfill God's kingdom agenda in history.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

In fact, sometimes God will allow you to experience larger problems in life because He wants to unveil a larger portion of Himself to you. People who want to give up on God simply because life's scenarios don't make sense could very well be walking away from a new manifestation of God and His name in their lives.

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of 'outsourcing'…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

Don't wait until you are a big shot to do big shot things.

God doesn't need a lot to do a lot. All David had was five stones. And all David used was one.

Sometimes God lets you be in a situation that only He can fix so that you can see that He is the One who fixes it. Rest. He's got it.

Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.

Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with each other and for the good of the broader society. It is necessary because much of what God determines to do, or not do, in the world is determined by His relationship to His people.

Tenacious prayer is a lifestyle that produces results.

God's timing is always perfect. Trust His delays. He's got you.

Paul, we are going to kill you. That is cool, then I will go to Christ. Ok Paul, we are going to let you live. That is great, then I can witness Christ. Ok, then we will torture you. That is fine, then I will receive a reward in Heaven one day.

If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like a crumpled-up church bulletin.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.

The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.

One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a man walking half as fast as I was, but going faster. He was walking on a moving sidewalk. When we walk in the Spirit, eh comes underneath us and bears us along. We're still walking, but we walk dependent on him.

The bottom line is pray. If you're tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed - pray. If you're on cloud nine and life seems perfect - pray. If you lack direction - pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference - pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control - pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you're your control - pray even harder. Whatever you do - pray.

Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).

There may be a hundred reasons that a husband is not fulfilling his role as the head of the home. But a wife who rebels against her head is only introducing a new element of spiritual sickness and dysfunction into the family.

Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

Wrong is because it is the taking of a life. When you take someone's life, you also take away their right to liberty and their pursuit of happiness. If you take someone's life, you also take their dream, their future, their family, their career, and their children away from them. All other rights are lost when you take away the right to life.

Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.

You are not fighting for victory - you are fighting from victory. This battle has already been won!

It has nothing to do with whether you like God's rules. It's not your kingdom. If you want to operate by your own rules, then you need to go out and create your own world. But as long as you are in God's world, where God has set the rules, you must abide by His rules or you become a rebel against His kingdom government.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

The biblical concept of agape love involves giving of yourself for the benefit of another, even at your own expense. Biblical love is defined by passionately and righteously seeking the well-being of another. Biblical love is an act of the will and not just a fuzzy feeling in the stomach. That's why God can command us to love one another. Love really has nothing to do with whether you feel loving at a particular moment. It has to do with the need of the person being loved, not the feelings of the one doing the loving.

The Bible is the voice of God in print.

It often takes the darkness of a storm to show us the light of God's presence.

A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.

It's easier to shape a child than to repair an adult.

There is no area of life that does not have a biblical worldview attached to it.

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.

My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds the answers for how our country should operate, the Bible.

A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.

One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in.

The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.

Jesus wants men who will rule well.

The primary role of the church is to reflect God's value system in society and to train people in that value system. It's not the government's responsibility, nor are they equipped to do that on the most local level where the need exists.