Quotes by Ray Pritchard
Ray Pritchard (b. 1952) — Pastor, Buchautor und Konferenzsprecher · evangelikal · USA
Ray Pritchard (* 1952) ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor, Buchautor und Leiter des Dienstes Keep Believing Ministries, der unter anderem langjährig die Calvary Memorial Church in Illinois führte. Er steht für eine praxisnahe, konservativ-evangelikale Auslegung der Bibel und Schriften über Vergebung, Heilsgewissheit sowie das Vertrauen auf Gottes Souveränität. Bibellesern bieten seine Bücher und Andachten leicht verständliche theologische Impulse zur konkreten Anwendung biblischer Texte im Alltag.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Money & Possessions, Ethical Questions, Meaning & Identity, Relationships & Family, Doubt & Hard Questions, Freedom & Truth, Peace & Rest, Growth & Character
Quotes by Ray Pritchard
If having more would make us happy, we would never need the Tenth Commandment. It is written for unhappy people!
Ray Pritchard
It has always been true that the best defense against adultery is a happy marriage.
Ray Pritchard
This is the humanist dilemma. They say, “You come from nothing and you’re going to nothing, but in between you have great significance.” It doesn’t make sense at all.
Ray Pritchard
Profanity is wrong not simply because it shocks or disgusts, but at a much deeper level, profanity is wrong because it trashes that which God has declared to be holy and good and beautiful.
Ray Pritchard
You can’t be content and covet at the same time.
Ray Pritchard
Coveting is nothing more or less than an attempt to improve upon God. The covetous man moans and groans because he believes that he has been treated unfairly. When all the goodies were passed out, he got nothing but crumbs… The covetous man doubts God’s wisdom, God’s goodness, God’s justice, God’s timing and ultimately God’s love. Coveting is a terrible sin because it is a surreptitious attack on God Himself. Those who covet are saying, “God, you haven’t taken care of me.” They are blaming God for His failure to meet their needs.
Ray Pritchard
The Third Commandment might well be paraphrased, “You shall not use the name of the Lord without meaning something by it.” Every time you use God’s name, you’d better mean something by it. Because God takes your words seriously even if you don’t.
Ray Pritchard
This one is so simple that we miss it. Why aren’t we more grateful? There are many answers to that question, but this one is central: we aren’t grateful because we’ve never asked God to give us a grateful heart. By nature we are covetous, greedy, grasping and unhappy. Left to ourselves, we will be just like that rich fool. Generosity isn’t our natural impulse. We aren’t born giving; we’re born getting. Gratitude is not the inborn language of the heart.
Ray Pritchard
Sources: keepbelieving.com, calvarymemorial.com, christianity.com, preaching.com
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