Exhorted Quotes

#1. If any kind of obedience, regardless of what motivates it, is what God is after, He would have showcased the Pharisees and exhorted all of us to follow their lead, to imitate them. But He didn't. Jesus called them 'whitewashed tombs'
clean on the outside, dead on the inside.

Tullian Tchividjian

#2. For example, the early Girl Scout handbooks preached an ethic of self-sacrifice and self-effacement. The chief obstacle to happiness, the handbook exhorted, comes from the overeager desire to have people think about you.

David Brooks

#3. Scriptures exhorted men to shun evil and become good - which seems to be an impossible task - since as soon as we try to add goodness in us, evil too gets added in us without our effort - almost automatically.

Awdhesh Singh

#4. There is no one left," McClure exhorted his readers as he cast about for a remedy to America's woes at the turn of the twentieth century, "none but all of us.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#5. It is notable that many of the Semi-Arians were men of exceptional moral rigor but apparently little gentleness,13 and although Gregory also exhorted his listeners to focus on doing good works, he reminded them, God specially rejoices in revealing Himself to the world as Love.

Justin S. Holcomb

#6. Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he hath raised up a sect such as teach ... that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

Martin Luther

#7. I frequently hear persons exhorted to give their hearts to Christ ... But that is not the Gospel. Salvation comes from something that Christ gives you, not something that you give to Christ. The giving of your heart to Christ follows after the receiving from Christ of eternal life by faith.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#8. If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.

Sonia Rumzi

#9. The experience of holiness is not a gift we receive like justification, but something which we are clearly exhorted to work at.

Jerry Bridges

#10. A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."

Plutarch

#11. Nearly everyone in ancient Egypt exhorted the gods to let the Pharaoh live 'forever. These collective prayers failed. Their failure constitutes data.

Carl Sagan

#12. Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

Zora Neale Hurston

#13. I am so sick of being exhorted, as a writer, to improve the world by representing it in a more hopeful way.

Russell Smith

#14. A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: Live for that better day.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#15. For they have no conception how a rational creature can be compelled, but only advised, or exhorted; because no person can disobey reason, without giving up his claim to be a rational creature.

Jonathan Swift

#16. We felt we had our place in time. What person on the earth doesn't feel this way?

Zadie Smith

#17. A lot of times, I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.

Brody Jenner

#18. I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's.

Brian Setzer

#19. Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Karl Marx

#20. You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
"What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?

J.K. Rowling

#21. Angel and devil," he said. "One is but a shade of the other.

Danielle Trussoni

#22. Certainly," quoth Athelstane, "women are the least to be trusted of all animals, monks and abbots excepted.

Walter Scott

#23. Break open
A cherry tree
And there are no flowers;
But the spring breeze
Brings forth myriad blossoms.

Ikkyu

#24. I would much rather have a life filled with magic than one filled with the mundane.

Debbie Viguie