Quotes about Example

Jesus didn't come just to tweak things, but to overthrow the kingdom of this world. We are slow to learn and need more stories to help us catch God's kingdom vision and even to help us make sense of the example Jesus sets for us.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Dad is our first definition of masculinity.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

The Commander in Chief directs that Divine service be performed every Sunday at 11 o'clock...It is expected that officers of all ranks will by their attendance set an example to their men.

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!

Nate Beckett is a man I will point to when my daughter asks me what kind of man she should marry.

God is radically for people. He wants everyone to come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). As his followers, we also must be for everyone, even if we oppose what they're doing. If we must live and work with toxic people, our call is to make sure their toxicity doesn't become ours. We don't treat them as they treat us. We don't offer evil in exchange for evil. We love. We serve. We guard our hearts so that we are not poisoned by their bad example.

If we can't take Christ to them by preaching, we'll take Christ to them by living.