Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.

Now the only way you can serve God on earth is by serving others.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.

… true evangelical faith ... clothes the naked; feeds the hungry; consoles the afflicted; shelters the miserable; aids and consoles all the oppressed; returns good for evil; serves those that injure it; prays for those that persecute it.

Doing Good Is My Religion

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

The most important elements of faith [are] believing in something bigger than yourself, taking care of those less fortunate than you.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

It's about sharing. You just give what you have to give wherever you go, and you let God handle the rest.

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.