74 Quotes About Examples

Train up a child in the way he should go - but be sure you go that way yourself.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak louder than words.

To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.

Our walk counts far more than our talk, always!

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

When our children see us clinging to the promises of God, they will grow up trusting in His goodness. If we fail as adults in praying for and praying with the next generation, then they will become spiritually unsure.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.

You say they are skeptical where Jesus is concerned. I'll tell you when they are skeptical--when they see the caricature of Jesus in you and me.

Don't stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.

God is preparing His heroes. And when the opportunity comes, He can fit them into their places in a moment. And the world will wonder where they came from.

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.

Preaching is too much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

The only Jesus that unbelievers ever see on this earth is the one reflected in those who already know Him. By mirroring Christ, we should be ready to turn any conversation or meeting with an unbeliever into a divine encounter.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.

More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Take heed that the misdeeds for which thou correctest thy children be not learned them by thee. Many children learn that wickedness of their parents for which they beat and chastise them.

While the state of Venice was free from inquisitors, a great number of Protestants fixed their residence there, and many converts were made by the purity of the doctrines they professed, and the inoffensiveness of the conversation they used.

Our witness - good or bad - is the overflow of our lives.

Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

More depends on my walk than talk.

It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.

We are too apt to look and see how others walk, which is not faith, and to allow our own steps to be more or less affected by the walk of others around us. But in so doing, my soul is not carrying out the spirit of life in my walk.

We can exert power for good, therefore, only if we are prepared to drum it into our heads that the church of Christ can never exert influence on civil society directly, only indirectly.

It is difficult to rebuke well; that is, at a right time, in a right spirit, and in a right manner.

The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

A good example is far better than a good precept.

The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.

Remain side by side with Him who loved us, and gave Himself for us, and you too will become a permanent magnet, a permanently attractive force; and like Him you will draw all men unto you, like Him you will be drawn unto all men. That is the inevitable effect of Love. Any man who fulfils that cause must have that effect produced in him.

Has someone wronged you recently? Resist the urge to judge that person. Instead, pray that God might use you to reach the offender.

The practices of good men are more subject to error than their speculations. I will, then, honor good examples, but endeavor to live according to good precepts.

Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.

We shall draw the world to Christ when we are filled with religion.

Above all, we [as parents] must make sure that the open book of our lives - our example - demonstrates the reality of our instruction, for in watching us they will learn the most.

My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity--many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined--taken to pieces.