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“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

“Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.”
― Dr. Tony Evans

“Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.”
― Tony Evans, Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream

“You are not fighting for victory—you are fighting from victory. This battle has already been won!”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.”
― Tony Evans

“It has nothing to do with whether you like God’s rules. It’s not your kingdom. If you want to operate by your own rules, then you need to go out and create your own world. But as long as you are in God’s world, where God has set the rules, you must abide by His rules or you become a rebel against His kingdom government.”
― Tony Evans, Life Under God: The Kingdom Agenda 365 Daily Devotional Readings

“One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them.”
― Tony Evans, The Kingdom Agenda: Life Under God

“Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.”
― Tony Evans, Our God is Awesome: Encountering the Greatness of Our God

“Many in our society want the benefits of freedom without its responsibilities and boundaries. They want “God bless America,” but not one nation under God.”
― Tony Evans, The Kingdom Agenda: Life Under God

“The tragedy today is that many Christians think they are fighting flesh and blood in their marital and parenting issues, rather than realizing that Satan has an agenda to destroy their home. Whoever controls the family controls the future.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Simply defined, prayer is earthly permission for heavenly interference.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.”
― Tony Evans, Our God is Awesome: Encountering the Greatness of Our God

“If you don’t know the truth, or if you don’t act on the truth, the shield of faith is impotent. In order to have faith, you have to know and respond to truth. And as we saw earlier, truth is fundamentally God’s viewpoint on a matter.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Our God is sovereign. That means there's no such thing as luck. Anything that happens to you, good or bad, must pass through His fingers first. There are no accidents with God. I like the story of the cowboy who applied for health insurance. The agent routinely asked him, 'Have you ever had any accidents?' The cowboy replied, 'Well no, I've not had any accidents. I was bitten by a rattlesnake once, and a horse did kick me in the ribs. That laid me up for a while, but I haven't had any accidents.' The agent said, 'Wait a minute. I'm confused. A rattlesnake bit you, and a horse kicked you, Weren't those accidents?' 'No, they did that on purpose.”
― Tony Evans, Our God is Awesome: Encountering the Greatness of Our God

“Our wives are like mirrors, reflecting back to us what kinds of husbands we are.”
― Tony Evans, For Married Men Only: Three Principles for Loving Your Wife

“If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Religion can be one of the greatest hindrances to faith because it creates dependency on a ritual rather than on the God of the universe who can do all things.”
― Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman: Embracing Your Purpose, Power, and Possibilities

“Obeying the will of God takes priority over satisfying cultural expectations.”
― Tony Evans, Oneness Embraced: Through the Eyes of Tony Evans

“CHURCH is like a hospital. It’s where people who are sick, broken, bruised, beaten, and battered with life because of sin and unrighteousness come for help. It’s okay if you are here and don’t have all your life together. If you had all your life together, you wouldn’t need to be here. However, hospitals do not tolerate sick people hanging around who don’t want to get better. No doctor is going to keep fooling with a patient”
― Tony Evans, Tony Evans' Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More Than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking

“If you align your thoughts and your desires underneath His comprehensive rule over every area of your life, you will walk in peace. He will calm your heart and your mind by giving you peace.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Putting on the shoes of peace can help you make good choices. God says when you allow His peace to rule your life, He will call the shots. When you're worrying about what you're supposed to do, He will calm your heart and your mind by giving you peace.”
― Tony Evans, A Kid's Guide to the Armor of God

“A friend is someone who gets in your way when you are on your way down.”
― Tony Evans, Horizontal Jesus

“Tenacious prayer is a lifestyle that produces results.”
― Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman: Embracing Your Purpose, Power, and Possibilities

“It’s interesting that, there really is no Proverbs 31 for men in the Bible. Men need the whole Bible, women need a chapter.”
― Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman: Embracing Your Purpose, Power, and Possibilities

“When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“To fear God simply means to take God seriously, as opposed to taking God casually.”
― Tony Evans, Kingdom Man: Every Man's Destiny, Every Woman's Dream

“A woman who wants to be the head of her home invites the Devil to take over her family. And the Devil has taken over many homes because the wife has refused to submit to the legitimate, biblical authority of her husband. The result is spiritual sickness and dysfunction.”
― Tony Evans, For Married Women Only: Three Principles for Honoring Your Husband

“True biblical love is compassionately and righteously pursuing the well-being of another.”
― Tony Evans, Horizontal Jesus

“God created man out of dust from the ground. At a basic level, the Creator picked up some dirt and threw Adam together. The Hebrew word for God forming man is yatsar,[11] which means “to form, as a potter.” A pot usually has but one function. Yet when God made a woman, He “made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man” (Genesis 2:22). He created her with His own hands. He took His time crafting and molding her into multifaceted brilliance. The Hebrew word used for making woman is banah, meaning to “build, as a house, a temple, a city, an altar.”[12] The complexity implied by the term banah is worth noting. God has given women a diverse makeup that enables them to carry out multiple functions well. Adam may be considered Human Prototype 1.0, while Eve was Human Prototype 2.0. Of high importance, though, is that Eve was fashioned laterally with Adam’s rib. It was not a top-down formation of dominance or a bottom-up formation of subservience. Rather, Eve was an equally esteemed member of the human race. After all, God spoke of the decision for their creation as one decision before we were ever even introduced to the process of their creation. The very first time we read about both Eve and Adam is when we read of the mandate of rulership given to both of them equally. We are introduced to both genders together, simultaneously. This comes in the first chapter of the Bible: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26–27) Both men and women have been created equally in the image of God. While within that equality lie distinct and different roles (we will look at that in chapter 10), there is no difference in equality of being, value, or dignity between the genders. Both bear the responsibility of honoring the image in which they have been made. A woman made in the image of God should never settle for being treated as anything less than an image-bearer of the one true King. As Abraham Lincoln said, “Nothing stamped with the Divine image and likeness was sent in the world to be trodden on.”[13] Just as men, women were created to rule.”
― Tony Evans, Kingdom Woman: Embracing Your Purpose, Power, and Possibilities

“Now when his child falls and scrapes her knee, a loving father is certainly going to scoop her up in his arms, carry her into the house to treat the wound, and hold her close while she cries. That’s what God does for us in our pain. But a wise father will also encourage his child to go back out and try it again, because that’s the only way to learn to ride a bike.”
― Tony Evans, Let it Go!: Breaking Free From Fear and Anxiety