Jakob Bohme Quotes

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

We must always walk in the presence of the Lord, in the light of the Lord, always trying to live in an irreprehensible way.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God to prefer in all things to do your will and pleasure in all things that are not against God.

Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

God is looking for clean hands and a pure heart.

God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

I have tried to devote my life - with all my husband failures, father failures, pastor failures, friend failures, any other possible failures I'm sure I've done them - to the God-centeredness of God and my aspiring, yearning to join Him in that activity. God is passionate about hallowing the name of God.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

It is obvious that God is looking at the heart when sacrifices are given to Him. He takes no delight in those who give up things for Lent and then act like it's such a struggle to perform what they said they wanted to do for Him.

I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?

Fear God and work hard.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

Rid yourself of anything that is not directed toward God.

The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.