Behavior modification that’s not empowered by God’s heart-changing grace is self-righteousness, as repugnant to God as the worst sins people gossip about.
The Grace and Truth Paradox, 2003, Used by Permission from Eternal Perspective Ministries, www.epm.org, p. 37.
By our conduct, our behavior, we signal inward rest and security and stability — or neediness. We evidence whether our hearts are satisfied in God and ready to overflow to meet others’ needs — or not. We show ourselves to be starved for undue attention, or eager to generously give our own attention to others. Humility demonstrates concern for others, while outward ostentation, or carelessness, broadcasts an inward emptiness aching to be filled.
Men Worthy of Admiration – Why Pastors Must be Respectable. Copyright 2021, Used by permission. www.DesiringGod.org.
[One’s] disposition toward a behavior does not mean justification for that behavior. “That’s the way he is” doesn’t mean “that’s how he should act.”
Taken from Counter Culture, Copyright © 2015 by David Platt. Used by permission. Website: Radical.net. Page 168.
