Quotes about Qualification

Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.

Why do we act as though our sin disqualifies us from the grace of God? That is the only thing that qualifies us! Anything else is a self-righteous attempt to earn God's grace. You cannot trust God's grace 99 percent. It's all or nothing. The problem, as I pointed out earlier, is that we want partial credit for our salvation. We want to be 1 percent of the equation. But if we try to save ourselves, we forfeit the salvation that comes from Jesus Christ alone, by grace through faith.

God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. -The Circle Maker-

The issue is never, "Are you qualified?" The issue is always, "Are you called?

We are qualified for Christian service by our praying not our preaching, by our desire to worship him and not our workload on his behalf, by knowing Jesus personally and not just by knowing a lot of interesting things about him. If you lose God's presence you lose everything, but if you know his presence you already have everything you will ever need.

Expressed otherwise in terms of the principle of context—a principle essential for sound understanding of any text but preeminently and uniquely so for Scripture—every unit of biblical material, however quantified, is qualified by a pattern of contexts relative to itself.

no man who has a broken foot or hand,

young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.

To the one, we are an odor of death and demise; to the other, a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?

And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Additionally, they must first be tested. Then, if they are above reproach, let them serve as deacons.

A widow should be enrolled if she is at least sixty years old, the wife of one man,