Quotes about People
My life is only important if i can help plenty of people.
— Bob Marley
If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.
— Joel Osteen
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.
— Barack Obama
There are many people who, when God's hand is out against them, will say they are troubled for their sin, but the truth is, it is the affliction that troubles them rather than their sin. Their heart greatly deceives them in this very thing.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
If you are going to experience the joy of your freedom in Christ, you have to decide whether you will please God or people.
— Jerry Bridges
Christ's whole demeanor was such that people were often restful in His presence. This effect is another outworking of the grace of gentleness. People are at rest, or at ease, around the Christian who is truly gentle.
— Jerry Bridges
God is serious about holiness in the lives of His people, and He will discipline us to attain it.
— Jerry Bridges
God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people. Note the absolute terms: constant care, absolute rule, all creation.
— Jerry Bridges
In the person of Christ God beholds a holiness which abides His closest scrutiny, yea, which rejoices and satisfies His heart; and whatever Christ is before God, He is for His people."64
— Jerry Bridges
He permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.
— Jerry Bridges
We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.
— Jerry Bridges
But note also the twofold objective of God's providence: His own glory and the good of His people. These two objectives are never antithetical; they are always in harmony with each other. God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory. He has designed His eternal purpose so that His glory and our good are inextricably bound together.
— Jerry Bridges