Quotes About Edification

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

This, let me remind you again, is a love story; you can see it by the imbecility, not a repulsive imbecility, the exalted imbecility of these proceedings, this station in torchlight, as if they had come there on purpose to have it out for the edification of concealed murderers.

Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Corinthians 14:15

God trades your natural plans and ideas for His through the supernatural medium of exchange, tongues for personal edification.

The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.

So, then, let us pursue the things making for peace and the things that are upbuilding to one another.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

The end purpose of all true prophetic revelation is to build up, to admonish, and to encourage the people of God. Anything that is not directed to this end is not true prophecy.

My last request is that all the faithful ministers of Christ would, without any more delay, unite and associate for the furtherance of each other in the work of the Lord and for the maintaining of unity and harmony in His churches, and that they would not neglect their brotherly meetings to those ends, nor yet spend them unprofitably, but improve them to their edification and the successful carrying on of the work.

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

built up in Him...

As we grow in Christ, we are being built up in Him.

No one should destroy the gracious work of Christ on the saints. No one should destroy those on whom we have been working for their building up.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead, something to which lip service is paid in the vain hope of edifying the kids.

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web.

We do not fight to tear down but to build up.

There is a difference between a lump-in-the-throat kind of blessing, and edification. A preacher who plays the emotional violin can make you feel good for a time, but at the end, what do you have? Nothing. As the ancient rhetoricians would have put it, nothing dries more quickly than a tear. An edifying preacher or teacher gives you a brick, and, when you get home, you know exactly where in the wall to put it. As a result, the structure goes up.

Whatever good things we build end up building us

Every attendance at Mass leaves me without comfort or edification. I shall never, pray God, apostatize but church-going is now a bitter trial.

por muchas que sean las cosas espantosas y repugnantes que hayas visto en el mundo, cosas que desearías poder olvidar porque quebrantan tu ánimo, tu confianza, te causan hastío de vivir y repulsión por la vida, ¡basta con que consideres cómo el amor edifica para que quedes edificado en las ganas de vivir! Hay infinitos objetos de que poder hablar, pero solo hay uno edificante: cómo edifica el amor.

The particular task of theology is to attest the truth of the gospel in the wake of Christ's own self-attestation. Theology edifies by testifying to the gospel as promise and claim.

We see it was the Lord's purpose to deliver nothing in his sacred oracles which we might not learn for edification. Therefore, instead of dwelling on superfluous matters, let it be sufficient for us briefly to hold, with regard to the nature of devils, that at their first creation they were the angels of God, but by revolting they both ruined themselves, and became the instruments of perdition to others.