Quotes About Exhortation

#1. Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.

Cotton Mather

#2. What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.

Erica Jong

#3. Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

#4. In the Hebrews passage three preventives are listed for a calloused Christian heart. The first is daily exhortation of one another (3:13).

Charles C. Ryrie

#5. echo James's exhortation to those of us in the church today: My brothers and sisters who have received the Holy Spirit, we often lack love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, etc., even while many of our unbelieving friends exhibit these traits - brothers and sisters, these things ought not to be so!

Francis Chan

#6. No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

John Holt

#7. Be still, and know that I am God'. We must not interpret that 'Be still' in a sentimental manner. Some regard it as a kind of exhortation to us to be silent; but it is nothing of the sort. It means, 'Give up (or 'Give in') and admit I am God. God is addressing people who are opposed to Him

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#8. With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#9. The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Eliot Spitzer

#10. There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbor.

John Calvin

#11. Religion has at one time or another been thought to fill four main roles in human life: explanation, exhortation, consolation and inspiration.

Richard Dawkins

#12. The carrion birds sat about the topmost corners of the houses with their wings outstretched in attitudes of exhortation like dark little bishops.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

Horace Greeley

#14. The mere assemblage of peace loving people to interchange convincing reasons for their common faith, mere exhortation and argument to the public in favor of peace in general fall short of the mark.

Elihu Root

#15. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.

Johnny Hunt

#16. There is great need today for the New Testament prophet who speaks to edification, exhortation, and comfort, a strengthening, stirring and soothing ministry.

Vance Havner

#17. The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.

Halford Luccock

#18. It is important that when we are engaged in admonition or exhortation or confrontation with a brother who is overcome in sin, we call attention to the truth in an extraordinarily compassionate and tender and loving spirit.

R.C. Sproul

#19. Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.

Andrew Pettegree

#20. The platform God has given me is the platform of exhortation.

Johnny Hunt

#21. Let your modesty be a sufficient incitement, yea, an exhortation to everyone to be at peace on their merely looking at you.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#22. More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

Johnny Hunt

#23. The strange thing about Christianity was that it adopted an entirely different method. It transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story; not by exhortation, but by the narration of an event.

J. Gresham Machen

#24. At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.

Harold Holzer

#25. I'd always follow Nixon's orders, but you can't order somebody to be happy.

Charles W. Colson

#26. A prophet is one who sees what is happening and being done in the present that they can tell us what will happen to us if we do not change now, immediately, turning from our present course.

Megan McKenna

#27. We must teach our people to reject gain from extortion, bribery, unrighteous grafts as something utterly abhorring.

Sunday Adelaja

#28. Don't accuse others of eating when juice smears your face-fur.

David Bowles

#29. Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

H.W. Brands

#30. Ronald Reagan was just as angry. But he made you want to stand right alongside him and shake your fist at the same things he was shaking his fist at.

Rick Perlstein

#31. Play to your strengths."
"I haven't got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself.
"Excuse me," growled Moody, "you've got strengths if I say you've got them.

J.K. Rowling

#32. Quick as birds to catch the bugs.

David Bowles

#33. Every good man resists others in those points in which he resists himself.

Augustine Of Hippo