Quotes from Wayne Cordeiro

In His grace, God gives you and me a measure of faith to get us going—but it's not all we'll need to finish the race, not even close. That we must gather and collect along the way. He designed life like this to keep our hearts teachable and compliant with His heart.

Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first. Only then will it teach you the lesson. Wisdom puts up the fence at the top of the cliff; Consequences visits you in the hospital when you're in traction . . . after they've scraped you up from the cliff's bottom.

If Consequences has a back-end price, Wisdom has a front-end price. It requires discipline, obedience, consistency, and above all else, time. Then it gladly pours on you its promised tremendous riches.

God is not cruel, but He is not lenient. He is true; He is not safe. He is unchanging; therefore we must change. We must learn in order to succeed. Our failures do not influence our grades, but our unwillingness to learn from them does. I

Do you want to know the biggest difference between Consequences and Wisdom? Wisdom teaches you the lesson before you make the mistake. On the other hand, consequences demand that you make the mistake first.

When someone stands behind a podium and testifies about his broken marriage or his shattered life or what he did wrong and how God resolved it, learn from that experience. This is why the Bible says, ''The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.5

If you can figure out how to learn from the bad as well as from the good, you'll learn twice as much in life.'' That's why God put into the Bible raw, unedited accounts of men and women behaving both wisely and foolishly.

But one of the true marks of a veteran is not how he catches a wave, but whether he knows when and how to get off the wave.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." HELEN KELLER

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." MOTHER TERESA

Psalm 42:11 (NIV): "Why, my soul, are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him.

At the heart of journaling is an easy-to-remember acrostic: SOAP. S = Scripture O = Observation A = Application P = Prayer

It is important to become aware that at every moment of our life we have an opportunity to choose joy. . . . It is in the choice that our true freedom lies, and that freedom is, in the final analysis, the freedom to love." HENRI NOUWEN

A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.''3 Allow God to speak that apt word to you by focusing on one main thought from your daily reading—not five, ten, or a baker's dozen. One thing.

The question is never ''Does God speak?'' but rather ''Am I listening?'' To best hear what God has to say to you, you must still your heart. Set aside your pressing demands. Turn off all your electronic distractions. Rarely does God shout to make himself heard!

One of the greatest lessons I'm learning (and yes, I am still learning it) is that rest is not sin.

I can't do any more than I can do, and if people don't like it that's no fault of mine.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men." A. W. TOZER

Thus says the Lord: 'Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls.'" JEREMIAH 6:16 NKJV

We don't forget that we are Christians. We forget that we are human, and that one oversight alone can debilitate the potential of our future.

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in His beauty deigns to walk." CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Why is knowing Him so important to God? Why does He want us to love Him with ever-increasing devotion?

Creative affinity means you become increasingly more like that which you love the most.