Best 15 quotes of Derwin L. Gray on MyQuotes

1 Timothy 3 lists only one gift, teaching, then follows w a list of character traits.

A label is a soul-tattoo that is ingrained deep in our hearts, so much so that it determines how we see ourselves, And how we see ourselves determines how we live... A destructive label leads to a destructive life. There is a soul thief, a dark enemy, who wants to nail ruinous labels to your heart so that he can steal your life. Jesus wants to give you life giving labels that release your potential for the good of the world.

Being born again happens in an instant. Learning to live as a child of God takes a lifetime.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Leaders are like point guards, we set people up to score.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

People live out of either the hurt they feel or the healing Jesus provides. Your parents will never be perfect. And you will never be a perfect parent. But there is a perfect God who, over time, will bring healing to hurtful circumstances.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

When everything comes from Jesus, it is spiritual insanity to have any form of pride.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

You cannot cast a vision that has not cast a spell over you.