Adam Hamilton Quotes:- Adam Hamilton (born July 12, 1964) is an American minister. He is the senior pastor of the 25,000-member United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, the largest United Methodist congregation in the world, measured by both weekend attendance and membership.
Motivational Adam Hamilton Quotes
“God’s role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.”
Adam Hamilton
“Everything doesn’t happen for a reason if by this we mean evil is a part of God’s plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God’s lead, our work is to push back the darkness.”
Adam Hamilton
“Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.”
Adam Hamilton
“People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher’s life first.”
Adam Hamilton
“I’m convinced many of America’s heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.”
Adam Hamilton
“Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.”
Adam Hamilton
“The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.”
Adam Hamilton
“Jesus’ own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God’s ways and vision for us.”
Adam Hamilton
“While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.”
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Famous Adam Hamilton Quotes
“The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God’s grand plan. It was a thwarting of God’s plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.”
Adam Hamilton
“You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.”
Adam Hamilton
“When people ask me if I’m liberal or conservative, I say, ‘Yeah.’ I’m both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn’t be cast aside.”
Adam Hamilton
“The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, is archetypal. Noah’s story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.”
Adam Hamilton
“The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.”
Adam Hamilton
“God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove the free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.”
Adam Hamilton
“In America, our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.”
Adam Hamilton
“Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.”
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Best Adam Hamilton Quotes
“We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.”
Adam Hamilton
“My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.”
Adam Hamilton
“I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it’s already accepted to be true, they don’t examine other people’s faiths… That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.”
Adam Hamilton
“When sermons start where people live – their questions, struggles, and concerns – and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.”
Adam Hamilton
“I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.”
Adam Hamilton
“Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we’re to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.”
Adam Hamilton
“I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer’s handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.”
Adam Hamilton
Great Adam Hamilton Quotes
“As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.”
Adam Hamilton
If ‘everything happens for a reason,’ then every act of evil is ultimately God’s doing.”
Adam Hamilton
“Effective preaching starts with loving the people we’re preaching to.”
Adam Hamilton
“One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher’s sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.”
Adam Hamilton
“We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from the powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.”
Adam Hamilton
“We don’t need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to ‘put God back in schools.’ God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children a future with hope.'”
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