Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

To do my duty, I must obey God.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

To please God, we must avoid blood transfusions, unclean habits, and unnecessary risks … They want to live, but they will not try to save their life by breaking God's laws

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

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

Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

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.

God doesn’t want me to do this, so I can’t do what God doesn’t want me to do

Those damn preachers got the idea that it was a moral issue

Jesus showed me what it means to be holy - he did his father's will no matter how difficult it was to accomplish.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

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

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Fear God and work hard.

Those of you who can read I must beg you to read the Bible, and whenever you can get time, study the Bible, and if you can get no other time, spare some of your time from sleep, and learn what the mind and will of God is.

I go out into America, and I am literally navigating a minefield. Godliness has become abnormal.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

I try to act out of faith.

I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.