Mondays with My Old Pastor Quotes

“Mi felicidad consiste en que sé apreciar lo que tengo y no deseo en exceso lo que no tengo.”
― José Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Dios ama la comunión mucho más que la producción.”
― José Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“—Arrodillados ante Él adquirimos equilibrio. Cuando seas tentado a pensar que careces de valor, mira a la cruz.”
― José Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“—Dios no llama a los capacitados, sino que capacita a los llamados.”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Loving Him should be our first priority and the only sufficient motivation to serve Him. If we do not serve out of love, we will end up giving up on serving. There is not enough human energy to resist the battering of serving your whole life. Only love will provide us the necessary strength to travel this road.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“It may seem simple, but I wouldn't trade it for anything. To surrender myself to intimacy with Jesus during the first minutes of the day has been the driving force of my life and ministry.

Sitting at His feet, I have admired Him, and He has re-created me in His presence... the rest came naturally. When He speaks, His voice transforms me; all I have to do is reproduce His words. When He looks at me, His love inspires me and at the same time grants me His authority.

Dear colleague. If you are asking for my advice, it would be this: carefully read this phrase because it contains the essence of fifty years of service: Sit every day at the feet of Christ, and then tell the world what you have seen.

Affectionately in Him,”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Debes leer mucho, sobre todo la Biblia, pero busca también empaparte de la sabiduría de otros. Un buen libro te hará crecer. Son como minas, me había dicho, acariciando el volumen que tenía entre sus manos. Minas repletas de riquezas. Cada capítulo es una galería que cobija tesoros, esperando que alguien los descubra.”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Love those who least deserve it more, because they are the ones who need it the most.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“It's easy to serve when everything is going well, but the hard times in life will lend credibility to your service and depth to your words.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Life doesn't start when you're twenty or when you're forty. Life starts at Calvary. And that's where fruitful service begins as well. Let the cross be so present in you that it becomes your way of life and your rest.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Lo importante no es huir de la tormenta, sino tener fe”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Ser llamado por Dios es, fuera de toda duda, la vocación más alta a que se pueda aspirar. Pero servirle implica entrar en un combate, y conviene no olvidar que en una guerra no hay soldado sin heridas.”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“We can work without praying, or we can do it while we pray, soaking every place, every appointment, and every activity with God’s presence. That turns work into serving and transforms our activity into something effective.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Humility is not an option but a nonnegotiable requirement for whoever serves God. Prayer will help us as well.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Something even more difficult than overcoming failure,” he insisted, “is overcoming success.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“Gracia es recibir lo que no merecemos; misericordia es no recibir lo que sí merecemos.”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Enfócate en Dios antes y más que en los hombres, de ese modo cuando te presentes ante ellos tendrás tesoros para compartir, y esos son los que valen,”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Don’t view the Bible as your workbook. Make it a collection of love letters that God has written to you. Then when you read it, it will cease to be an obligation and turn into sheer delight.”
― José Luis Navajo, Mondays with My Old Pastor: Sometimes All We Need Is a Reminder from Someone Who Has Walked Before Us

“«No seas un siervo de agenda abierta y Biblia cerrada.
No permitas nunca que tu Biblia sea asfixiada por tu agenda».”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Trabajar como si todo dependiera de mí y orar como si todo dependiera de Dios.”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“—Esos aficionados de la oración que se vuelven altaneros apenas se asoman al universo de la comunión con Dios y ya se sienten superiores al resto de los mortales. El orgullo es un fijador de pelo que atraviesa el cráneo y endurece y bloquea las neuronas.”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“La humildad no es una opción sino un requisito innegociable para quien sirve a Dios y en esto también nos ayuda la oración. Volvi”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“—Es una terrible incoherencia escuchar el sencillo mensaje del evangelio proclamado por labios altaneros. L”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Sobre el escenario se lucen las estrellas; sobre el altar desciende la presencia de Dios. Ambas cosas son incompatibles; tendremos que elegir: Estrellas humanas o impacto divino. Mi”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“porque el tiempo y lo acontecido me han hecho comprender que en cada desierto hay una cruz restauradora, solo es cuestión de buscarla y guarecernos a su sombra. A”
― José Luis Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“La oscuridad propia de la vigilia nos deja sin referencias para elegir el camino adecuado. Detente, descansa, confía y espera a que amanezca.”
― José Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“ninguna decisión tomada en medio de la noche suele ser acertada.”
― José Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor

“Recuerda, entonces, que el éxito tiene un alto componente etílico. Vigila que no te emborrache.”
― José Navajo, Lunes con mi viejo pastor