Inspirational Quotes on Examples

“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.”

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

“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

“Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.”

“The best way to help those who are behind you is to heed those before you.”

“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.”

“Take heed that the misdeeds for which thou correctest thy children be not learned them by thee. Many children learn that wickedness of their parents for which they beat and chastise them.”

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

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

“People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.”

“We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.”

“While the state of Venice was free from inquisitors, a great number of Protestants fixed their residence there, and many converts were made by the purity of the doctrines they professed, and the inoffensiveness of the conversation they used.”

“It is difficult to rebuke well; that is, at a right time, in a right spirit, and in a right manner.”

“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.”

“As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of 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.”

“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.”

“Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.”

“A true shepherd leads the way. He does not merely point the way.”