Inspirational Quotes on Examples

“God is preparing His heroes. And when the opportunity comes, He can fit them into their places in a moment. And the world will wonder where they came from.”

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

“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.”

“When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.”

“The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

“Remain side by side with Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us, and you too will become a permanent magnet, a permanently attractive force; and like Him you will draw all men unto you, like Him you will be drawn unto all men. That is the inevitable effect of Love. Any man who fulfils that cause must have that effect produced in him.”

“My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”

“The practices of good men are more subject to error than their speculations. I will, then, honor good examples, but endeavor to live according to good precepts.”

“To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether. ”

“Though "the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies," yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.”

“We can exert power for good, therefore, only if we are prepared to drum it into our heads that the church of Christ can never exert influence on civil society directly, only indirectly.”

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

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

“It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though. Jimmy Swaggart was my role model and he got caught buying whores twice. So don't look at me as a role model.”

“We are too apt to look and see how others walk, which is not faith, and to allow our own steps to be more or less affected by the walk of others around us. But in so doing, my soul is not carrying out the spirit of life in my walk. ”

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”

“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

“Emulation, in the sense of a laudable amoition, is founded on humility, for it implies that we have a low opinion of our present, and think it necessary to advance and make improvement.”

“People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.”

“Has someone wronged you recently? Resist the urge to judge that person. Instead, pray that God might use you to reach the offender.”