Inspirational Quotes on Examples

“We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.”

“It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”

“You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read, and your life is under scrutiny every day. What do others learn from you? Do they see an accurate picture of your God?”

“You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.”

“The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.”

“To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.”

“Don't stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.”

“Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children.”

“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.”

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”

“You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.”

“Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself.”

“We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.”

“Hang this question up in your homes - "What would Jesus do?" and then think of another - "How would Jesus do it?" For what Jesus would do, and how He would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.”

“My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity--many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined--taken to pieces.”

“A man's life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching.”

“Jesus is hungry but feeds others; He grows weary but offers others rest; He is the King Messiah but pays tribute; He is called the devil but casts out demons; He dies the death of a sinner but comes to save His people from their sins; He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.”

“A good example is far better than a good precept.”

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.”

“More depends on my walk than talk.”