We Christians can be just as unloving, if not more so, by our silence and neglect of suffering and injustice as when we react with overt hostility toward those with whom we disagree. And while our active participation in this world’s outrage tends to garner the headlines, what we don’t do can lead to the most lasting damage to our witness and mission. In fact, the flip side of prideful engagement is the lack of courage to speak out for the gospel. If we want to show love to those we are trying to reach, we cannot afford to stay silent.
Fear of Man
Francis of Assisi
Where there is fear of God to keep the house, the enemy can find no way to enter.
Leonard Ravenhill
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
Stefani Carmichael
The problem is that if we trust in man we are always let down. No, we shouldn’t trust in man– not ultimately. If we don’t trust in man or God, we are in an awful lonely mess, too. You see, if we don’t trust anyone, we live in fear, but if we trust in God, then we don’t have to fear man anymore.
Andrew Murray
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
Justin Martyr
Rulers who respect reputation rather than truth have as much power as brigands in a desert.
Bill Johnson
There are many tables to eat at in life. There is the table of public opinion. The food is sweet, but it sours in the stomach. There is the table of personal achievement. That’s a power meal for sure, yet the crash is as rapid as the ascent. There’s only one table with rich food that settles well and brings supernatural strength; it’s the table of God’s will.
Paul Chappell
The fear of man strangles us, because we can never please everybody; but the fear of the Lord frees us, because it challenges us to live and serve for an audience of One.
Joy Dawson
The fear of the Lord means being more impressed with God’s reactions to our actions than with other people’s reactions.
Bill Johnson
My comfort must never take precedence over doing anything that brings God glory. We must take risks to see God fully glorified.