Bede Quotes

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.

You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.

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

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

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

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be.