Some people may still do bad things, but we will not be responsible. We will be a godly example to others. The world takes its notions of God from the people who say they belong to God’s family. ~Alexander Maclaren~
Life is crazy I work with people who will sell everything they own to start a business that may not work but will not go to church on Sunday.
"Most of us can benefit from a softer expression, smiling more often, and just plain 'lightening up.' Such simple efforts can make a big difference in creating a friendlier atmosphere in our homes."
~Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, in "Respectfully Yours: The Secret to Power and Influence in Your Marriage"
Moral courage is the ability to do what is right in the face of popular opposition or discouragement. It takes courage to do the right thing today, to stand up for what the Bible says about right and wrong, good and evil.
It takes courage to live honestly, with integrity, avoiding the "shortcuts" that may get you ahead but take you down spiritually and morally. And it takes courage to follow Jesus Christ, no matter how hard it gets.
"Where men are forbidden to honor a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film stars instead; even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison." C.S. Lewis
“Notice that when Jesus spoke to Peter, He did not say, ‘Peter, if you love Me, feed the goats.’” —
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, and follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible. - JC Ryle
We miss our way altogether, as gospel ministers, if we aim at flash and finery. -C.H. Spurgeon - The love of God is like Himself - equal, constant, not capable of augmentation or diminution - our love is like ourselves... -John Owen
“Christians may have joy unspeakable, amidst severe outward troubles!” — John Flavel The self-sufficient do not pray. The self-satisfied will not pray. The self-righteous cannot pray. -Leonard Ravenhill - Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable. -John Wesley -
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted. Jonathan Edwards True weanedness from the world doesn’t consist in being beaten off from the world by its affliction of it but being drawn off by the sight of something better. Jonathan Edwards
Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them differ from others. Jonathan Edwards
“The ecclesial landscape is littered with the wreckage of churches whose leaders either moved too fast on a major issue or gave a minor issue a promotion it didn't deserve.” — Matt Smethurst
“Justification and sanctification are inseparably bound together. Those who enter through the narrow gate will walk the narrow path to life.” — Steve Lawson
“The best picture to see Christ in is the word and the ordinances. And the best eye to see him with is the eye of faith.” — Richard Sibbes “We deny providence when we do not trust God because we can see no visible means to do so.” — Stephen Charnock, Divine Providence, 99.
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