Reinhard Bonnke Quotes

Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.

God has given me a sign to appoint 7 of you to distribute the goods among the people.

The worst mistake a leader can make is to mentor no one, choose no successor and leave no legacy.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.

All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.

I am appointed by God to save my country.

It is yourselves who have called us to this office, and being called by you, we have an authority from God.

God has ordered poets to be the fiery pillars and so to lead the wandering people into Canaan’s promised land.

… religious and royal authority are united in Islam, so that the person in charge can devote the available strength to both religion and politics at the same time. The other religious groups do not have a universal mission

I believe God wants me to be President.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that Christ giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

The cardinals have elected me, a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard.

I have heard of worse fates than succeeding the longest-serving manager in England.

God has appointed two kinds of government in the world, which are distinct in their nature, and ought never to be confounded together; one of which is called civil, the other ecclesiastical government.

I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.

I say to Israel, the Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this Church to lead you astray. It is not in the program. It is not in the mind of God. If I were to attempt that the Lord would remove me out of my place, and so He will any other man who attempts to lead the children of men astray from the oracles of God and from their duty.

There is no success without a successor.