Quotes about Adherence

Nor can we be any of us delivered from this snare, at this season, without a watchful endeavour to keep and preserve our minds in the constant contemplation of things spiritual and heavenly, proceeding from the prevalent adherence of our affections unto them, as will appear in the ensuing discourse.

You become like what you worship.

Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.

At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don't use your restrictions to criticize someone else.

We must work the system without allowing the system to corrupt us.

Again Abraham bowed down before the people of the land

Now, my son, listen to my voice and do exactly as I tell you.

You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”

If you follow My statutes and carefully keep My commandments,

You must not add to or subtract from what I command you, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;