Quotes about Standard
When God blesses you financially, don't raise your standard of living. Raise your standard of giving.
- Mark Batterson
A person who has no standard to live by other than the culture of the moment is a person whose principles might as well come from the latest public opinion polls.
- Mike Huckabee
Our generation has learned to hold to the standard of each other instead of the standard of God. That is the travesty: God is no longer the standard; we are.
- Mike Huckabee
How do we know whether we are producing life or death? By whether our lives exhibit the beauty of God's character. When people see the way you live, are they drawn closer to God or are they alienated from God? When they observe the way you treat others, do they find the gospel more credible or less credible? That is the standard by which we should measure our actions. Christians are called to be "life-producing machines
- Nancy Pearcey
Conceit makes the way God deals with me personally the binding standard for others.
- Oswald Chambers
It is not a lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but a lack of working to keep our eyes focused and on the right goal. At least once a week examine yourself before God to see if your life is measuring up to the standard He has for you. Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.
- Oswald Chambers
My goal is God Himself, not joy nor peace, Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God. Am I measuring my life by this standard or by something less?
- Oswald Chambers
Never live for those exceptional moments—they are surprises. God will give us His touches of inspiration only when He sees that we are not in danger of being led away by them. We must never consider our moments of inspiration as the standard way of life—our work is our standard.
- Oswald Chambers
The Lord Himself is the one standard of conduct and character in the New Testament. People do not object to a man or a woman becoming outwardly holy, but they do object to his or her becoming a personal devotee of Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers
If Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me by setting a standard before me I cannot attain.
- Oswald Chambers
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
- Leviticus 24:22
“The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting at a distance from it, each man under his standard, with the banners of his family.
- Numbers 2:2