Be Salt And Light Quotes

#1. When we privatize our faith, we cease to be salt and light in the world. No longer part of a countercultural revolution, or an outpost of heaven demonstrating God's plan for restoration and resurrection, we reduce our faith to this: "Jesus came, died, and rose from the grave to get me into heaven.

Mike Slaughter

#2. Being salt and light demands two things: we practice purity in the midst of a fallen world and yet we live in proximity to this fallen world. If you don't hold up both truth in tension, you invariably becomes useless and separated from the world God loves.

David Kinnaman

#3. Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.

Brent Weeks

#4. The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

Paulo Coelho

#5. Chapter 12 'Give Ron one in the eye

Luca Caioli

#6. Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed sways in the stream.

Matthew Arnold

#7. As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#8. We are God's people and our purpose is to become the light of the world and the salt of the earth.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Enjoy life, it has an expiration date

Zayn Malik

#10. You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. Jesus himself, as the gospel story goes on to its dramatic conclusion, lives out the same message of the Sermon on the Mount: he is the light of the world, he is the salt of the earth, he loves his enemies and gives his life for them, he is lifted up on a hill so that the world can see.

N. T. Wright

#12. The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.

Pope Francis

#13. The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc..

Carl Jung

#14. Darcy was afraid to slow down, Shawn thought. If she wasn't working, wasn't busy, the bad stuff would catch up to her. But if she kept moving and focusing on work, she could fend it off.

Nina Post

#15. Don't bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

Olav H. Hauge

#16. Northern San Diego. The white stucco walls rose, interrupted by huge windows. The whole structure nearly floated off the pavement, sleek, modern, and somehow light, almost delicate. The salt-spiced wind blowing from the coast less than a mile away only strengthened the illusion. He'd

Ilona Andrews

#17. The prophetic movement is called to be as well as to say. They are to be a light set on a hill, the salt of the earth, the leaven in the lump. God is to be revealed in as well as by His called people.

Jack Provonsha

#18. Darlin'," he drawled, "go when you are invited. Bring good boots, drive slow, take blankets, carry your own salt, but by all means... go where the light is.
That's not bad advice, wherever you live. Darlin'.

Ellen Stimson

#19. It is clear from our Lord's prayer that He does not intend for us to withdraw from contact with the world of non-Christians (John 17:15). Instead, He said we are to be 'the salt of the earth' and 'the light of the world' (Matthew 5:13-14).

Jerry Bridges

#20. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#21. Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

Seneca The Younger

#23. Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.

Jenim Dibie

#24. When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

Harvey Pekar

#25. Shams is a trumpet note of light
that starts the atoms spinning,
a wind that comes at dawn
tasting of bread and salt.
Move to the edge and over. Fly with the wings
he gives, and if you get tired, lie down,
but keep opening inside your soul.

Rumi

#26. The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

Joyce Meyer

#27. Not to be the salt and light on earth is to lack understanding

Sunday Adelaja

#28. My story is simple, straightforward, and unassailable. I learned

Jeff Lindsay

#29. Will it be salt or late light that it melts like?

Carl Phillips

#30. Nice guy. Salt of the earth. The stick up his ass is just a bonus." "Let us not make light of the rectally challenged." Niko disposed of the mug with disdain, wiping his hand thoroughly on a towel afterward. "The condition is no doubt congenital. Completely beyond his control.

Rob Thurman

#31. The current version of ... separation of church and state says you can be salt, and you can be light, but only inside the four walls of the church.

David Barton

#32. It was as if the light had coaxed a flowering from the frost, which before seemed barren and parched as salt. The grass shone with petal colors, and water drops spilled from all the trees as innumerably as petals.

Marilynne Robinson

#33. It's so critical for people frustrated with the economy, with changing tides in government, who aren't able to hear their voices, questions or their ills being talked about, to have a place for discussing what others won't.

George Noory

#34. The church is called to be separate in lifestyle but never to be isolated from the people it seeks to influence. Salt, light, and leaven don't work very well from a distance.

Rick Rusaw

#35. There is no single way to serve God, but the point is this: We each have only one life to live to tell a story about Him, about His ways, about His love. And if we are Christ followers, then God calls us to use our gifts, to exercise our faith, and to become salt and light right where we are.

Sally Clarkson

#36. Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.

Billy Graham

#37. Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live.

Billy Graham

#38. At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.

George Sand

#39. Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we'll be.

Miguel Syjuco

#40. We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world - in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light in the society?

Michael Brown