Quotes about Dedication

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.

True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

To make my weak heart strong and brave, Send the fire. To live a dying world to save, send the fire. Oh, see me on Thy altar lay My life, my all, this very day; To crown the offering now, I pray: Send the fire! —F. de L. Booth-Tucker

Paul was branded by passion. A man must be in the dead center of God's will and walking the tightrope of obedience to call upon the Holy Ghost to bear witness to his witness.

If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

I want to be useful for the team, depending on whatever position the coach chooses for me. That's the spirit I've always had.

Valued companionships begin with a personal commitment to be an exemplary companion.