Tony Evans Quotes

40 Sourced Quotes

Unless God and His revealed Word is the overarching influencer and rationale over how our electoral decisions are made as believers, then we cannot expect God to be the overarching influencer in our nation.

Tony Evans
In fact, it is precisely because we have changed books that the chaos in our country has gotten worse than ever before.

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

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

Tony Evans
When the governing representatives of the people legalize the shedding of innocent blood (as a for-profit business, nonetheless) then they have placed themselves, and those they represent, in the direct line of God's judgment.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
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.

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

Tony Evans
Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
The more people marginalize the true God of the Bible the more chaotic things become.

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

Tony Evans
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.

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

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

Tony Evans
The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

Tony Evans
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.

Tony Evans
As a believer and a child of the King, to consider casting a vote for someone or for something that would go against what God would vote for ought to be out of the question.

Tony Evans
Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

Tony Evans
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.

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

Tony Evans
These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for interpreting and interacting with God's creation, faulty theology and sociology emerge as mankind attempts to fashion God into the image of man.

Tony Evans