Hebrews 12 Quotes

#1. We have a mandate to speak out against "the sin that so easily entangles" [Hebrews 12:1 NIV]; for though we are not of the world, we are still in it.

Billy Graham

#2. If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. - Hebrews 12:8

Gary Chapman

#3. A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.

Joshua Harris

#4. But God disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his holiness ... Without holiness no one will see the Lord. HEBREWS 12:10, 14

Andrew Murray

#5. Pursue holiness, for without holiness no one will see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14,

Jerry Bridges

#6. Whatever ... you pretend ... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved. (Hebrews 12:14; Matthew 15:14).

Joseph Alleine

#7. If you dwell often on the truth that God is Lord and orders everything, even the frustrations, for our sanctification (Hebrews 12:511; cf. Romans 8:28ff.), you will find yourself able increasingly, even in the most maddening moments, to "keep your cool" - and that is best of all.

J.I. Packer

#8. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening - it's painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way" (Hebrews 12:11 NLT).

Rick Warren

#9. Hebrews 12:1- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

Anonymous

#10. Let us awake to a sense of the perilous state of many professing Christians. 'Without holiness no man shall see the Lord'; without sanctification there is no salvation (Hebrews 12:14). Then what an enormous amount of so-called religion there is which is perfectly useless!

J.C. Ryle

#11. Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.

Billy Graham

#12. The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt

#13. Democrats and Republicans love Israel and all of us care about the existential threat to Israel from Iran.

Jane Harman

#14. Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. Watch out, brothers, so that there won't be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart that departs from the living God. Hebrews 3:12

Beth Moore

#16. The word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword ... . It is a judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

Beth Moore

#17. President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

Colin Powell

#18. God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son.

Hebrews 1 12

#19. There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#20. I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

David Morrissey

#21. We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

R. L. Hymers Jr.