Best quotes by Tony Evans on God

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• ‟ Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.

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• ‟ The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.

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• ‟ There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.

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• ‟ Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.

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• ‟ When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

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• ‟ Black lives matter, as a subset of all lives matter. So any injustices to a particular group must be addressed specific to that group but under the banner that all life is created in the image of God.

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• ‟ People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.

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• ‟ We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the rule of God, the more ordered our relationships will become in society.

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• ‟ God operates the world by covenants. Those covenants have specific jurisdictions and responsibilities, not to be infringed upon by another covenant.

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• ‟ Far too often, we have limited the definition of the Church. While not in all cases, in many cases, 'Church' has become an informational, inspirational weekly gathering rather than the group of people that God has ordained from Heaven to operate on his behalf on Earth in order to bring Heaven's viewpoint into history.

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• ‟ God has a kingdom. It's made up of citizens: some black, some white, some red, yellow, Spanish backgrounds. His intention was never that the individual uniqueness would cause them to lose sight of the flag flying over them - the flag of the cross.

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• ‟ The exclusion of God automatically means the inclusion of evil.

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• ‟ We don't apologize for who we are. We do what we do as Christians. Our faith isn't hidden. There should never be a separation between God and good works.

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• ‟ God is not asking you to be anything other than what he's made you, as long as you submit to how he has made you, to how you relate to other people who he has made different than you.

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• ‟ We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.

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• ‟ Our God is a great coach, and he's got a great playbook.

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• ‟ Until we take seriously God's definition of the church and stop just 'having church,' we will not see transformation in our society.

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• ‟ If God created the family, He should be the ultimate definer of what it is, and that should be our point of reference.

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• ‟ A name is so important in biblical settings that Scripture frequently mentions God Himself changing someone's name to reflect a new reality. Abram, which means 'exalted father,' was changed to Abraham, meaning 'father of a multitude.'

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• ‟ Separation of church and state should never mean separation of God and right.

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• ‟ Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.

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• ‟ The problem is that God is being dismissed from the culture, and that vacuum is allowing, or is the basis for, the deterioration of society. That is because Christians have not kept Him in the center of the culture.

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• ‟ The Church and only the Church has been given the keys to the kingdom, so we have unique access to God that nobody else has.

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• ‟ What God wants is for us to live by His rules, resulting in the receiving of His blessing and power. When we as Christians, celebrating our differences, join together as the house of God representing the kingdom of God for the glory of God, we get the response of God to our presence in history.

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• ‟ We're going to have to become very aggressive in addressing justice issues that have to do with fairness and doing that which is equitable and honoring to God.

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• ‟ God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

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