Quotes about Emulation

But to grow spiritually means to live increasingly as Jesus would in our unique place—to perceive what Jesus would perceive if he looked through our eyes, to think what he would think, to feel what he would feel, and therefore to do what he would do.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

You can't ever be your heroes, but you can love their gifts.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.

There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

disciples are not copiers of Christ but continuing incarnations of Jesus' life and love.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration... as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation.

We tend to become like those whom we admire.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.