Bobby Jamieson > Quotes

“Many today view love and doctrine as enemies, or at best as rivals.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Sound Doctrine: How a Church Grows in the Love and Holiness of God

“One way to be unhappy is to lack what you most want. Another is to get all you could possibly want and discover that everything is never enough.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“By God’s design, the sustenance that keeps you from dying is not bitter or tasteless but endless varieties of delicious. The necessary is needlessly delightful. This marriage of survival and delight is not a happy accident but a strategically planted clue to the secret of everything. This universe is the creation of a God so rich and full in himself that he needs nothing and no one else to be infinitely satisfied. This universe is not a symptom of need but a signature of generosity.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“Pursue godliness. Pursue godliness more than you pursue position or publicity or prestige. Pursue godliness more than you pursue the pulpit. Pursue godliness more than you pursue others’ recognition of your godliness. Pursue godliness when no one is looking and no one cares. Pursue godliness when it seems like godliness is not getting you where you want to go.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“How can you tell whether your ambitions are godly or ungodly? Here are three tests. Godly ambition aims at God’s glory; ungodly ambition aims at yours.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“All pleasures are not created equal. Some pleasures free; others enslave. Some pleasures dignify; others degrade. Do you know the difference? Does your life display the difference?”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“Pursue godliness. Pursue godliness more than you pursue position or publicity or prestige. Pursue godliness more than you pursue the pulpit. Pursue godliness more than you pursue others’ recognition of your godliness. Pursue godliness when no one is looking and no one cares. Pursue godliness when it seems like godliness is not getting you where you want to go.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“How can you tell whether your ambitions are godly or ungodly? Here are three tests. Godly ambition aims at God’s glory; ungodly ambition aims at yours. How addicted are you to people’s praise?”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“I know more than one pastor who”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“Mark Dever has often urged pastors, “Devote so much time to prayer in church that nominal Christians will grow bored talking to the God they only pretend to know.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“All wealth is loaned from God’s library. What should you do with it? Enjoy it. Share it. Remember that it’s due soon.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“The more satisfied you are in Christ, the less you need ministry to satisfy you.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“The modern West's control complex catechizes you to think of yourself as the captain of a vessel cutting a razor-straight course through life's succession of storms. But you're not the captain; you're not even on the boat. In the end, you're a fish in the ship's net.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“Bear that in mind,” he said solemnly. “Our greatest danger is to live upon our activity. The ultimate test of a preacher is what he feels like when he cannot preach.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“But in God’s world”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness

“Devote so much time to prayer in church that nominal Christians will grow bored talking to the God they only pretend to know.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“Every time you attend to the words of Scripture, aim to claim more territory in your soul for the rule of King Jesus.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“A good counselor is one who will ask questions you have not yet factored in. A good counselor will help you learn how to make a wise decision yourself.”
― Bobby Jamieson, The Path to Being a Pastor: A Guide for the Aspiring

“When Qohelet commends a little quietness over a lot of striving, he is saying that there are limits to what work will give you, so there should be limits to what you give work. If you try to grasp gain with two hands, both will come up empty. There is no contentment without knowing and submitting to limits.”
― Bobby Jamieson, Everything Is Never Enough: Ecclesiastes' Surprising Path to Resilient Happiness