Dave Bertolini > Dave's Quotes

“No awesome thing in creation was meant to give you what only the Creator is able to give. Every awesome thing in creation is designed to point you to the One who alone is worthy of capturing and controlling the awe of your searching and hungry heart.”
― Paul David Tripp, Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do

“Whether you are graced with the gift of leadership, the gift of athletics, or the gift of creativity, we are called to be good stewards and faithful servants of what is in our hand. No one is exempt, and if you didn’t play your part we would be missing out on the unique grace and the individual strengths that you bring to the here and now. There is a beautiful satisfaction that comes from knowing that we are doing exactly what God made us to do and are being obedient to his calling on our lives. It is as we discover our strengths, and grow comfortable in the grace we have been given, that we will begin to see the promises of God for our wide-open, spacious future begin to take shape.”
― Brian Houston, Live Love Lead: Your Best Is Yet to Come!

“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Of all the men I have ever known, Eric Liddell was the one in whose character and life the Spirit of Jesus Christ was pre-eminently manifested.” And all of us who were privileged to know him with any intimacy echo this judgement. ‘What was the secret of his consecrated life and far-reaching influence? Absolute surrender to God’s will as revealed in Jesus Christ.”
― Julian Wilson, Complete Surrender: Eric Liddell

“The City of Man is our residence for now, and we care for its order and justice. The City of God is our home.”
― Michael J. Gerson, City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era

“The Scottish evangelical preacher Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) has said, “Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.”21”
― Ajith Fernando, Acts

“Our preaching is not the reason the Word works. The Word is the reason our preaching works.”
― H.B. Charles Jr., On Preaching: Personal & Pastoral Insights for the Preparation & Practice of Preaching

“It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.”
― Richard Baxter, THE REFORMED PASTOR

“Proper contextualization means causing the right scandal — the one the gospel poses to all sinners — and removing all unnecessary ones.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Center Church: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City

“From the garden, to Abraham and his descendants, to Israel, to the church, to the New Jerusalem, God has always worked to save a people for his Son.”
― Michael Lawrence, Conversion: How God Creates a People

“There are, in the end, only two ways to read the Bible: Is it basically about me or basically about Jesus? In other words, is it basically about what I must do or basically about what he has done?”
― Timothy Keller, Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism

“Christ was sent not to mend wounded people or wake sleepy people or advise confused people or inspire bored people or spur on lazy people or educate ignorant people, but to raise dead people.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers