Pastor John Paul Quotes

Men of God are not just born, they are formed ~ John Paul Warren

Jesus said when you pray say "Our Father which art in heaven." He did not say "Our Judge which art in heaven". #grace #gospel ~ John Paul Warren

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus ~ John Paul Warren

By faith we proclaim that we are "justified". By His sinless sacrifice Jesus declares and makes us "righteous" by giving us His very own righteousness! ~ John Paul Warren

God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks ~ John Paul Warren

Love is a heart smile. ~ John Paul Warren

The LAW points you to self-efforts. GRACE points you to the finished work of Jesus Christ. ~ John Paul Warren

Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons". ~ John Paul Warren

Repentance is not merely turning away from your sin but turning to the Lamb who takes away your sin. "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world". 1 John 1:29 ~ John Paul Warren

The sin and guilt of the human race was imputed to the spotless lamb of God, Jesus Christ when He became the sin offering for the world. ~ John Paul Warren

The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus ~ John Paul Warren

So many today want merely to be familiar with Jesus in contrast to being intimate with Him. ~ John Paul Warren

The fire of God comes where ever there is a sacrifice. ~ John Paul Warren

The sin of man was placed on a sinless Savior. 2 Cor. 5:21 ~ John Paul Warren

The blood of Jesus did not merely "cover" the sins of your wicked heart ... leaving a stain! It completely remove them all wiping them out as if they never existed there in the first place! It's called redemption! ~ John Paul Warren

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing ~ John Paul Warren

Your outlook affects your outcome ~ John Paul Warren

Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord. ~ John Paul Warren

If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong. ~ John Paul Warren

Live as temporal, serve as eternal ~ John Paul Warren

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship ~ John Paul Warren

Reading the scriptures through the lenses of the Law you see God as unapproachable, through the lenses of Grace you see the outstretched arms of Jesus saying "come". ~ John Paul Warren

Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth. ~ John Paul Warren

Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness ~ John Paul Warren

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men ~ John Paul Warren

Why be content with stain class, a Church steeple and religious rituals when God invites you into a loving and intimate relation with Him because His son Jesus Christ paid the full and final price for all your sins. ~ John Paul Warren

Count your blessings, discount you're loses ~ John Paul Warren

There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead. ~ John Paul Warren

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. ~ John Paul Warren

Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8,9 ~ John Paul Warren

The Law was never given to gentiles but to Jews only, so why do so many gentiles struggle today with mixing law and grace? ~ John Paul Warren

Ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin". If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. ~ John Paul Warren

I define my life not by the things I have done, but by the people I have loved. ~ John Paul Warren

The IMPOSSIBLE is ONLY relevant to those who NEVER attempt it ... otherwise it is ABSTACT and MEANINGLESS ~ John Paul Warren

The Church is Christ's witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man. ~ John Paul Warren

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any ~ John Paul Warren

When you GIVE under "compulsion" or "Grudgingly" you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving. God loves a cheerful (thankful) giver, which is giving under GRACE. 2 Cor 9:7 ~ John Paul Warren

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. ~ Pope John Paul II

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers. ~ John Calvin

Beauty is a key to the mystery and a call to transcendence. It is an invitation to savor life and to dream of the future. That is why the beauty of created things can never fully satisfy. It stirs that hidden nostalgia for God which a lover of beauty like Saint Augustine could express in incomparable terms: 'Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you!'. ~ Pope John Paul II

The Christian should be characterized by an effort to see things in the best light; if it is true that the word Evangelos means good news, then Christian means happy man, spreader of happiness. 'Grim faces,' Saint Philip Neri used to say, 'are not made for the merry house of Paradise! ~ Pope John Paul I

If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give. ~ Pope John Paul II

God did not entrust his truth to the world casually or haphazardly. He gave his church the role of preserving and protecting his truth. In the same sentence that describes the church as God's household, Paul describes the valuable role the church is to play: "If i delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of truth (1 Tim. 3:15). With all of the assaults against the truth of God, what hope is there that truth and error can still be sorted out? God has established churches to study, know, do and proclaim his Word in the world ~ John Crotts

None are so poor that they have nothing to give ... and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive. ~ Pope John Paul II

Life goes on, brah! ~ The Beatles

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. ~ Suzanne Fields

Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure ... a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan. ~ Pope John Paul II

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up. ~ John C. Maxwell

Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace. ~ John Paul Warren

The most faithful disciples of Christ have been builders of peace, to the point of forgiving their enemies, sometimes even to the point of giving their lives for them. ~ Pope John Paul II

He who will not risk cannot win. ~ John Paul Jones

It is not enough to long for a person as a good for oneself, one must also, and above all, long for that person's good. ~ Pope John Paul II

A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly. ~ Pope John Paul II

Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being. ~ Pope John Paul II

You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience. ~ Pope John Paul II

Be holy men and women! Do not forget that the fruits of the apostolate depend on the depth of the spiritual life, on the intensity of prayer, of continual formation and sincere adhesion to the directives of the Church. ~ Pope John Paul II

The family is the key to Christmas. The family is the key to Christianity. Pope Saint John Paul II noted that everything good - history, humanity, salvation - "passes by way of the family."1 When God came to save us, he made salvation inseparable from family life, manifest in family life. Since the family is the ordinary setting of human life, he came to share it, redeem it, and perfect it. He made it an image and sacrament of a divine mystery. Salvation itself finds meaning only in familial relations. ~ Scott Hahn

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness. ~ Pope John Paul II

If desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it. ~ Pope John Paul II

There is no evidence that the author of the Book of Revelation, John of Patmos, read anything that we think of as a New Testament book. I don't see any evidence that he knew what was in the Gospels, or the letters of Paul, which I don't think he would have liked at all. ~ Elaine Pagels

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it. ~ Pope John Paul II

Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love. ~ Pope John Paul II

In philanthropy, many of us give a little bit and each year we give more and more to see what actually works and not just throw money out there and see if it's going to work. If the government did the same thing, fabulous. ~ John Paul DeJoria

All that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current
carried where? ~ Pope John Paul II

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. ~ Pope John Paul II

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven. ~ Pope John Paul II

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. ~ Pope John Paul II

The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion is not a concern of the Christian alone. Although faith provides special light and strength, this question arises in every human conscience which seeks the truth and which cares about the future of humanity. Life certainly has a sacred and religious value, but in no way is that value a concern only of believers. The value at stake is one which every human being can grasp by the light of reason; thus it necessarily concerns everyone. ~ Pope John Paul II

The battle against the devil, which is the principal task of Saint Michael the Archangel, is still being fought today, because the devil is still alive and active in the world. ~ Pope John Paul II

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. ~ John Paul Stevens