Quotes about Others

A joyful life of grace toward others grows best in the soil of gratitude. When I really reflect on who I am, when I take time to consider the grace that I couldn't have earned, achieved, or deserved but which has been lavished on me, and when I remember that that grace came at the cost of the life of another, then I am joyfully motivated to give that grace to others.

I am still tempted to assess the "good" of a day by whether it pleased me versus whether I pleased God and was loving toward others.

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows. Gratitude for mercy given is what motivates mercy extended.

We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

The DNA of sin is selfishness (see 1 Cor. 5:15). Sin turns all of us in on ourselves. It reduces our circle of hopes and concerns to things that touch and involve us. It makes us all focused on and driven by our wants, needs, and feelings. Sin can so fill our eyes with our needs that we become functionally blind to the needs of others. We can be so focused on our interest that we have little interest in the interest of others.

You deal with others with grace when you walk around with the humble realization of how deep your need for grace was and continues to be.

We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

So gathering after gathering is intended to so enthrall you with the grandeur of God's grace that you can't think of anything better than being a tool of that grace in the lives of others.

If you fail to carry around with you a heart of gratitude for the love you've been so freely given, it is easy for you not to love others as you should.

The overall biblical model is this: God transforms people's lives as people bring his Word to others.

It really is true that when you're living for you, the call to love others is always a burden for you

Humility is the soil in which mercy for others grows.