Quotes about People

When you live a life of integrity, when you have a spirit of excellence, giving, serving, and treating people right, God's blessings will chase you down and overtake you.

The Scripture says, "It is better to obey God than to obey people." There will be times when you have to make a decision, "Am I going to stick with my convictions, am I going to be who God made me to be, or am I going to let the approval of people determine my destiny?

How much time and energy are you spending trying to get approval, trying to be well-liked, trying to keep this friend impressed, trying to stay in this coworker's favor? Take the pressure off. I would much rather spend my time pleasing God than trying to please people.

You can't control what people do; you can't control what they say. But you can control how you respond. My message is very simple; quit giving away your joy. Quit letting the same people upset you. Quit letting the things that don't work out frustrate you.

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

I used to think life could be shared with anyone, but now I know choosing the right people is pretty important.

If Satan can get us to interpret our mission task as populating heaven with as many people as possible, we will resort to going only to those places of receptivity and harvest and neglect doing what is needed to reach the unreached and penetrate the dominions of darkness with the light of the gospel.

Maybe the first thing we need to pray about is for God to help us see the huge field of people waiting to be harvested and to give us an incredible love for those people.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

You dare not lift your hands to place God's name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

A proverb and a byword among all people.