Romans 12 Quotes

• When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.

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  Darlene Zschech

  Humanness Is   Grace   And Love  

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• We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

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  Billy Graham

  Compassion   Suffering   Scripture  

  Billy Graham, William Griffin, Ruth Graham Dienert, Ruth Graham (1994). “The faithful Christian: an anthology of Billy Graham”, McCracken Pr

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• One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of temperament. We make our temperament and our natural affinities barriers to coming to Jesus. The first thing we realize when we come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatever to our natural affinities. We have the notion that we can consecrate our gifts to God. You cannot consecrate what is not yours; there is only one thing you can consecrate to God, and that is your right to yourself (Romans 12:1). If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you. God’s experiments always succeed

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  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus   Giving   Attention  

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

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  Steven James

  Real   Thinking   Who I Am  

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• If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

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  Paul the Apostle

  Romans 12   Depends   Ifs  

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• It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you.

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  Bill Hybels

  Bible   Spiritual   Leader  

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• There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.

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  N. T. Wright

  Christian   Differences   Community  

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• Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

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  Paul the Apostle

  Bible   Submission To God   Priorities In Life  

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• Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

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  Luke the Evangelist

  Bible   Jesus   Hate  

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