Quotes about People

Christianity is not an ethical code. It is a love affair, a Spirit-filled way of living aimed at making us professional lovers of God and people.

People we meet, some great in the eyes of the world and some almost invisible to the larger society, are often conduits of God's wisdom.

As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for.

Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, "Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will?" More basic and more significant is the question, "Where does God lead us as a people?"

It is important to think about the Church not as over there but as a community of struggling, weak people of whom we are part and in whom we meet our Lord and Redeemer.

A prayerful life, then, is one in which we convert the world from darkness, people from mere roles to persons.

Divine guidance can be found in the books we read, the nature we enjoy, the people we meet, and the events we experience.

I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions

You who govern public affairs, what need have you to employ punishments? Love virtue, and the people will be virtuous. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass—the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

We look to the Bible but not to get ideas from what people did for God. We look to see what God did in peoples' lives.

Leaders who continually invest large amounts of time into people who refuse to do God's will are investing their time unwisely. On

God taught Joshua the key to people's success is not the rung they reach on the corporate ladder but the level of intimacy they reach with God.