Being reminded about the incredible power of God's love, and living as He intended, is the most powerful motivation to change.
My faith motivates me to really try to work on behalf of and advocate for those who are least able to advocate for themselves.
I'm a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.
I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.
From the beginning, religious faith animated the American quest to explore the heavens.
The reason for our loving God is God.
If Jesus Christ isn't strong enough to motivate you to live biblically, you don't know Him at all.
Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?
The meetings least attended in our churches today are the ones whose only attraction is God.
When we imply that our works are for God and not our neighbor, we perpetuate the idea that God's love for us is dependent on what we do instead of on what Christ has done.
Certainly good causes have sometimes been mobilized under the banner of religion, but you find the opposite, I think, more often the case.
I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.
The primary qualification for a missionary is not love for souls, as we so often hear, but love for Christ.
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
...our concern is more about going to heaven than loving the King.
For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me.
How many people who have run for President did not believe that God wanted them to be President?
If you want to follow Jesus because He'll fix your marriage, if you want to follow Jesus because He'll give you a better life, that's idolatry. Follow Christ for the sake of Christ; He is worthy!
Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitment, convincing each other, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day, but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.
Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.
As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.
Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
The fact is, ministry is too unpredictable to be motivated by security. It’s too unprofitable to be motivated by money. It’s too demanding to be motivated by pleasure, and it’s too criticized to be motivated by fame. Our ministry should be motivated by the pleasure of God, and God is pleased when we have a ministry powered by faith.
