114. SAMPLE
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Be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity (1Tim.4:12).
1. You only remember 40 percent of what you hear, but 80 percent of what you see.
2. Be what you would make others.
3. So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
4.We are the only pure Communist in the World! We are practicing what they are preaching.
5. The Communists say, "What's yours is mine and I'm going to take it away from you by force!" We say, "What's ours is yours and I want to share it with you!"
6. I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honour, than why one has.
7. The World has much higher standards for a Christian than most Christians do for themselves.
8. Let them see your love, joy and peace, a light in dark places, to lighten their load and enlighten their way.
9. Be a good sample and they will get the point that you have something happy that they haven't, and it's JESUS!
10. You believe in prayer as much as you pray, you believe in the Bible as much as you read it, and you believe the Letters as much as you practice them!
11. The compassionate are those who put feet to their kind words and try to do good as well as speak good.
12. Kind words may never die, but they look pretty sick without kind deeds!
13. Don't lower the standard, but bring yourself up to the standard!
14. What I see you do speaks louder than what I hear you say!
15. We are the Endtime Church, the last ones, and God is trying to show through us what Christians could and should have been like.
16. Jesus' main message was His sample of Love!
17. An ounce of example is worth a pound of advice.
18. Neighbours have to be won not only by words, but most of all by deeds, actions, kindness and consideration.
19. There is nothing wrong with Christianity--it's just that so few have ever tried it!
20. Don't always preach your sermons to the other guy, preach them to yourself first and live'm, and then you can offer'm to the other fellow because they worked in you.
21. People can only see God as we reflect Him.
22. First impressions really count--people hardly ever forget their first impression!
23. The only Bible the World reads is the one bound in shoe leather: You and me!
24. It's awful easy to tell other guys to do things, but I don't tell you to do anything I haven't done myself sometime or other, and proven I can do it.
25. It's a terrible thing to have someone stumble over you into Hell!
26. We're all copycats. We copy Jesus and you copy us. It's good to be copycats if you copy the right things. You're supposed to be a copycat!
27. One picture is worth a thousand words! A sample is better than a sermon!
28. The eye's a better pupil and more willing than the ear.
29. Nobody will know what you mean when you say "God is love", unless you act like it as well.
30. If anyone speaks evil of you, let your life be so that none will believe him.
31. The best reformers the World has ever seen are those who began with themselves.
32. The lectures you deliver may be very wise and true
But I'd rather get my lessons
By observing what you do.
I'd rather see a sermon than to hear one any day.
I'd rather one would walk with me
Than merely tell the way.
33. Be careful how you live; you may be the only Bible some people will ever read.
34. The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.
35. If you have love you'll show it.--It's impossible to hide it.
36. It was not only the way the Christians lived but also the way they died that convinced many that, "Surely Jesus was the Son of God!"
37. Actions speak louder than words.
38. He preaches best who lives best.
39. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
40. To really know where a man's at, observe his behaviour with a woman, a flat tire, and a child.
41. Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold--but so does a hard-boiled egg.
42. Some people go about doing good, other people just go about.
43. The length of your life is less important than its breadth and depth.
44. Many people will not read a Bible but will read a Christian.
45. If you can't be a Christian where you are, you can't be one anywhere.
46. Is your Christianity ancient history or current news?
47. If you don't do it, you don't believe it! You believe in a thing as much as you practice it.
48. Jesus was not only the Living Word, the Sermon, but He was also the Living Work, the Sample.
49. Every one of us are copycats we're all trying to copy Jesus, because He copies God!
50. Be a good original, and then you'll make very good copies!
51. Are you a gorgeous, useless, merely ornamental vase, or are you an ugly, useful, necessary toilet?
52. You believe in love as much as you love, in prayer as much as you pray, in witnessing as much as you witness, and in the Word as much as you read it!
53. You believe in prayer as much as you pray, you believe your Bible as much as you read it, and you believe in me and my Words as much as you read and obey them!
54. The proof of the pudding is in the tasting, and one picture's worth a thousand words!
55. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless we preach as we walk.
56. Just like I told my brother once, "You're not entirely useless. You make a dandy bad example."
57. Every true Christian or child of God is a sample of God Himself.
58. What you are speaks so loud I can't hear what you say.
59. We're just carbon copies, xerox copies of Jesus, and the more we copy Him the better!
60. The only Love of God they can see the love they see in you!
61. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
62. Be a sample, not only a sermon.
63. Our spirits are contagious,
Be they meek or quite outrageous!
64. We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
65. Example is a lesson that all men can read.
66. We honour the illustrious dead best by following their example.
67. We imitate only what we believe and admire.
68. Dead works fall upon deaf ears.
69. An acre of performance is worth a whole World of promise.
70. Thoughts in little deeds
Done in a loving way
Tell more of caring kindness
Than any words could say.
71. A company is known by the men it keeps.
72. The churches have been talking about Jesus for thousands of years and it hasn't done much good, but the way we are living and practicing Jesus is making news!
73. You either sow faith in their hearts or you sow doubt in their hearts.
74. It pays to make a good impression.
75. One person walking in love will encourage others to do likewise!
76. You cannot live without influence. Everybody is affecting somebody.
77. Don Quixote was a bit batty, but look how his words and his philosophy and his story have gone out through the entire Earth, encouraging many people that there is something more important even than sanity, and that's love and happiness and service to others.
78. I soon can learn to do it,
If you'll let me see it done.
I can watch your hands in action,
But your tongue too fast may run.
79. We must always have a meek and quiet spirit about us which engenders trust and faith and confidence and peace, and rest and assurance in others as well, for our spirits are contagious. If we get upset and flustered and impatient and nervous and ranting and raving and angry and sharp-tempered and sharp-tongued, this is apt to be the same way that they will react and also answer back to us, sad to say.
80. 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.
81. The World is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heros, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
82. People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.
(See also No. J, 50, 98, 104, 116, 196, 208, 304, 309, 328, 502R, 537, 560, 699, 1202, 1250.)
83. JOH.13:13-15 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
84. ROM.13:14a Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ.
85. 1CO.4:16 Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.
86. 1CO.9:27 But I keep under my body, and bring it under subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
87. 1CO.11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
88. 2CO.3:2 Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.
89. PHI.2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
90. PHI.3:17 Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.
91. PHI.4:9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
92. 1TH.1:6-8 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
93. 1TH.5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
94. 1TI.4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
95. TIT.2:7,8 In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.
96. 1PE.1:14-16 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: But as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
97. 1PE.2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps.
98. 1JO.2:6 He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk, even as He walked.
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