Edify Others Quotes

#1. Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities and use them to edify others and glorify the LORD.

Neil T. Anderson

#2. Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity. Others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity. But there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others, and that is charity." The

J. Budziszewski

#3. The scriptures, said Paul to Timothy, are given for "correction" and "instruction in righteousness."3 They are likened by the Psalmist to a lamp that illuminates, that lights our path.4 Scriptures beckon, inspire, and edify.

Terryl L. Givens

#4. ..what we take to heart will either edify or destroy us.

Carol Gambill

#5. Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.

Bob Burg

#6. The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.

George Inness

#7. All organizations have habits and cultures. The question is whether they are designed deliberately, or allowed to form without guidance. Dysfunctional cultures tend to come from the latter. Organizational

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#8. Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

James Rozoff

#9. The most significant way you can edify another person is to see them accurately as the same as you, listen to them, and honor their right to their own thoughts and feelings.

Kimberly Giles

#10. My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

Anamika Mishra

#11. Paul said you pray in tongues to edify yourself. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself (1 Cor. 14:4). To edify means build yourself up. Speaking in tongues builds you to the point that you can believe God instead of circumstances.

Norvel Hayes

#12. Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.

Ufuoma Apoki

#13. You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Octavia Spencer

#14. The finer literature, indeed, is characterized by a certain suffusion of the feminine flavor, the finer, the more ideal, thought plumed with sentiment; even science loves to spring from its feet, philosophy affect the clouds to inspire and edify.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#15. Mom is a compulsive reader. She reads for pleasure, she reads to edify herself, but more often than not, she reads because she can't help it. I understand. The minute I find myself sitting still, I start rummaging around for printed material.
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Michael Perry

#16. Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Joyce Meyer

#17. What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

John Spratt

#18. It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'

Walter J Chantry

#19. I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

Louis Pasteur

#20. The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction

Alexandre Dumas

#21. Love is waiting for you lifting to hand, open your heart, and accept it.

Debasish Mridha

#22. 1 Thess 5:11 For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.

Various

#23. I have much power. In the days to come I will grow stronger, and I would hate for you to find yourself on the wrong side of that which cannot be avoided." "Hyperbole and mystic aggrandizement, you mean?

Katie MacAlister

#24. It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. Poetry as Initiation
Every poem embraces our passion to connect
its reader to snippets of knowledge
that have become life-giving to us.
Poems go beyond simple sharing to initiation,
beyond the need to express
to the urgency to edify.

Beryl Dov

#26. People of color are allowed, even required to perform, and, especially these days on issues of race, to edify as well.
'Here you are, now entertain us'.
But are we allowed to lead?

Jeff Chang

#27. Songs edify the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

Rachel Sklar

#29. Anyone who resists the notion of women preachers is functioning as a tool of the devil.

Tony Campolo

#30. The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.

Thomas Merton

#31. For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

Louise Slaughter

#32. Everyone is influenced by those things that precede formal education, that come out of the blue and out of everyday life.

Rebecca Solnit

#33. Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer - for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

Sydney J. Harris

#34. All romantics meet the same fate some day.
Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.

Joni Mitchell

#35. We know to much to command ourselves very far.

Julian Jaynes