Train up a child in the way he should go – but be sure you go that way yourself.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Examples
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
– Billy Graham
Christians | The Bible | Examples
Our walk counts far more than our talk, always!
– George Mueller
Examples
Children take more notice of what their parents do, than what they say. Actions speak louder than words.
– William Tiptaft
Children | Examples
To train a boy in the way he should go you must go that way yourself.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
– John Calvin
Examples
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.
– Dwight L. Moody
Examples | Light
When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.
– David Jeremiah
Examples | Holiness | Joy
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.
– Michael Youssef
Examples | Children
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
– George Washington
Friendship | Examples
As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
– John Wesley
Examples
People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.
– Max Lucado
Examples
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
– Karl Barth
Examples | Jesus
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
– C.S. Lewis
Truth | Examples
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.
– Gipsy Smith
Examples
A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.
– John C. Maxwell
Leadership | Examples
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.
– Jim Elliot
Examples | Leadership
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
– Isaac Newton
Examples
Don’t stop with telling your boy to do right. Show him how.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
– Richard Cecil
Examples
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.
– A. B. Simpson
Examples
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Children | Examples
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said.
– C.S. Lewis
Examples
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.
– William Lane Craig
Examples
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
– Edmund Burke
Examples
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.
– John Bunyan
Chastisement | Examples | Parents
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.
– John Foxe
Doctrine | Examples | Purity
Our witness – good or bad – is the overflow of our lives.
– Alistair Begg
Examples
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.
– Matthew Henry
Examples | Doctrine
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Examples
More depends on my walk than talk.
– Dwight L. Moody
Examples
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
– Matthew Henry
Examples
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
– John C. Maxwell
Leadership | Examples | Vision
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.
– G.V. Wigram
Examples
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.
– Abraham Kuyper
Examples | Government
It is difficult to rebuke well; that is, at a right time, in a right spirit, and in a right manner.
– John Henry Newman
Examples
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.
– Frederick Buechner
Examples
The lives of ministers oftentimes convince more strongly than their words; their tongues may persuade, but their lives command.
– Thomas Brooks
Preaching | Examples | The Tongue
A good example is far better than a good precept.
– Dwight L. Moody
Examples
The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.
– Andrew Murray
Examples
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.
– Henry Drummond
Examples
Has someone wronged you recently? Resist the urge to judge that person. Instead, pray that God might use you to reach the offender.
– Warren Wiersbe
Examples | Evangelism | Judging
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.
– Joseph Hall
Examples
Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Bible | Examples
Preaching is too much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
– Hosea Ballou
Preaching | Examples
We shall draw the world to Christ when we are filled with religion.
– Dwight L. Moody
Examples
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.
– R. Kent Hughes
Parents | Examples
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Examples
There is great force hidden in a gentle command.
– George Herbert
Examples | Gentleness
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.
– David Jeremiah
Examples
It’s just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don’t like this role-model stuff, though. Jimmy Swaggart was my role model and he got caught buying whores twice. So don’t look at me as a role model.
– Duane Chapman
Examples
The remains of great and good men, like Elijah’s mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors; that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.
– Matthew Henry
Examples | Rewards
A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him.
– Thomas Fuller
Examples | Education
Emulation is the devil-shadow of aspiration. To excite it is worthy only of the commonplace vulgar schoolmaster, whose ambition is to show what fine scholars he can turn out, that he may get the more pupils.
– George Macdonald
Examples
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
– Mike Huckabee
Examples
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
– Assorted Authors
Examples
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
– John Bunyan
Examples
A man’s life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching.
– Charles Spurgeon
Life | Examples
The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.
– Andrew Murray
Examples
Though “the words of the wise be as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies,” yet their examples are the hammer to drive them in to take the deeper hold. A father that whipped his son for swearing, and swore himself whilst he whipped him, did more harm by his example than good by his correction.
– Thomas Fuller
Hypocrisy | Examples | Children
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Achievement | Examples
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
– Charles Spurgeon
Examples | Faithful
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear… Imitation is a far stronger principle with children than memory. What they see has a much stronger effect on their minds than what they are told.
– J. C. Ryle
Parents | Examples
If the King is in residence, be sure to fly His flag.
– Woodrow Kroll
Examples
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
– Francis Bacon
Examples | Truth
Watch where you step; those you love are close behind.
– Woodrow Kroll
Examples
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.
– Abraham Kuyper
Examples | Government
Emulation, in the sense of a laudable amoition, is founded on humility, for it implies that we have a low opinion of our present, and think it necessary to advance and make improvement.
– Joseph Hall
Humility | Examples
The best way to help those who are behind you is to heed those before you.
– Jack Hyles
Examples
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Examples
Not to walk in the straight and narrow way yourself, is to give the devil the biggest kind of a chance to get our children.
– Billy Sunday
Examples | Children
The secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be.
– Andrew Murray
Examples
‘Tis better that thou be rather something sparing, than very liberal, to even a good servant; for as he grows full, he inclines either to be idle, or to leave thee: and if he should at any time murmur, thou mayest govern him by a seasonable reward.
– Thomas Fuller
Examples | Discretion | Rewards
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don’t line up with the message we’re proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
– David Jeremiah
Examples