Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

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.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

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

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

I go to work, and I work very hard. I'm loyal, generous, true, kind, fair - all those boxes are ticked. I'm going to Heaven.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

The pinnacle of the fulfillment I can ever experience for my spirit and soul is to hear from the Lord, when I see Him face to face, 'Well done my good and faithful servant.'

I am such a goody-two-shoes.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

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.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

Obedience to the law of chastity will increase our happiness in mortality and make possible our progress in eternity.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.