Quotes we heard from Pastor Tandberg

The secret to successful Christianity is being in love with Jesus.

Men rely on the love of God, out of proportion to the revelation of God.

There is no limit what a man can do or where he can go, if he doesn't care who gets the credit.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Do not pray for the Lord to use you, but pray that He will make you usable.

God doesn't love me because I am good, He loves me because He is good.

God doesn't love me because I love him, He loves me before I loved Him.

A hero is detrimental to the cause of Christ, unless he is an example of Christ.

"The advice most people seek is the approval of their own ideas, so that they will not

feel the responsibility of the results as theirs alone."

It's better to be right in the spirit, than to be right in the argument.

You can't just love Jesus, you have to also hate sin.

Experience is not the best teacher.  The Word of God is the best teacher.

The Gospel is the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Calvary precedes Pentecost, both historically and experientially.

It is impossible to understand the Godhead outside of the plan of salvation.

I am positionally perfect in Christ.  Experientially I am being perfected in Christ and will continue to be perfected until the Lord’s return.

We need to know Acts 10:38 as well as we know Acts 2:38

When I don’t feel something, I need to know something.

Good better, best, never let it rest, till your good becomes better and your better becomes best.

The Bible is the one book that tells the truth about man’s condition, including man‘s sinful nature (Jeremiah 17:9) and man’s mortality (Hebrews 9:27).

My capacity to love the Lord is not dependent on the depth of my sin (in comparison to another man’s sinful experiences) but rather on my realization of all the Lord has forgiven me.  (Luke 7:40-47)  We have all been forgiven much!

A good motto to live by: Assume that everyone loves you unless they tell you differently.

The essential lesson to be learned from Second Coming teaching can be summed up in Matthew 24:44.  “Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.”

What men are taught determines what they believe.

What men believe determines what they do.

A flawed picture of God, is the result of an exalted picture of man.

The man with an experience, is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

Compiled and read by Lois Grant on Pastor Tandberg’s 80^th Birthday Celebration on July 20, 2008 at Pentecostal Assembly Church.

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