Quotes related to Matthew 5:16
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.
— Elie Wiesel
The individual is not a cog in a monstrous machine; it is within his power to modify the very laws which imprison him and the very relationship maintained by the Judge with the accused and witnesses. If it is true, as the Baal Shem says, that it is possible for man to hide the light of dawn emanating from the forest simply by shielding his eyes with his hands, still it is no less true that he can rediscover it by merely moving his hands.
— Elie Wiesel
In his diary of the summer he wrote: " 'He makes His ministers a flame of fire.' Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be a flame. But flame is transient, often short-lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul—short life? In me there dwells the Spirit of the Great Short-Lived, whose zeal for God's house consumed Him. 'Make me Thy Fuel, Flame of God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
For this cause…for this privilege…you were born—to shine lights into the world for God.
— Elizabeth George
Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.
— Elizabeth George
I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.
— Melissa McCarthy
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
— Pope Benedict XVI
No politician has ever used his faith to a greater result for all of humanity, and that is why, in his day, Wilberforce was a moral hero far more than a political one.
— Eric Metaxas
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
— Billy Sunday
The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.
— John Perkins
When I give talks like the one I'm going to give at the Changing Advertising Summit, one of the points I often make to the audience is that I'm not one of those speakers who stands in front of the audience and pontificates - everything I talk about I'm actually doing myself. I'm living it.
— Cindy Gallop
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
— Richard Paul Evans