Tony Evans Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.

You cannot change the way you feel until you change the way you think because your thoughts will determine the way you feel.

Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.

Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.

Success is not what you have done compared to what others have done. Success is what you have done compared to what you were supposed to do.

The Proverbs 31 woman is not the model of a perfect woman. She is the model of a committed woman under God.

Trials are to see if you believe what you say you believe.

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

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!"

Faith is not about how much you believe in what you believe. Faith is about believing that the One you believe in is believable.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

God is the source. Everything else is a resource.

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

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

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

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.

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

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

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.

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.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?

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

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

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.

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

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

Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in the win or loss column. Lives will be lost. Eternities will be shaped. Destinies will either be discovered or dismissed. Dreams will be attained or relinquished.

Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.

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.

If the Lord is your shepherd, He is sufficient for all your needs.

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.

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

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.

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

Faith doesn't make sense. It makes miracles.

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

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.

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.

When you understand the values of God's kingdom, you will best understand His agenda.4 However, it is my conviction that the message of the kingdom, and the values therein, are sorely lacking in understanding today.

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!

Faith is acting like God is telling the truth.

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

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

Every voting choice you exercise ought to be for the candidate, platform, party, or policy that will best represent the values of the kingdom of God.

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.