Honor
96 quotes: 33 by Keith Craft, 63 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Honor
- Be a man under authority and God will make you a man of authority.
- Honor up...Honor down...Honor all the way around!
- Spiritual maturity can be measured one way: by what it takes to offend you.
- The greatest attribute you can have as a human being is a spirit of honor.
- The greatest way to honor God is to humble yourself to do your life God’s way.
- We are CALLED to follow delegated authority so we can learn to lead with spiritual authority.
- We don’t honor because they are honorable, we honor because we are honorable.
- You can tell how spiritually mature someone is by what it takes to offend them.
- Faithfulness is the greatest way to show honor in your life.
- Humility is the root. Honor is the fruit. Influence is the Harvest.
- Don’t just know the devil’s secret weapon (negativity), but know your greatest weapon (honor)!
- We don’t give honor because someone deserves it. We give honor because we are honorable.
- A biblical definition of honor is: An internal attitude or disposition of esteem, value, respect, and care for others...that empowers one to love others as Christ loved us and therefore gave himself for us... A disposition of excellence that is empowered to bestow excellence
- The greatest lesson you can ever learn in life is to give honor and live honorably.
- When you honor the right things in your life, you will stress the wrong things out of your life.
- Honor is a first thing that makes every other thing in life work. The only thing that comes before honor is the one thing that makes honor possible: Humility. Dishonor on every level stems from pride. Think Kingdom...Be humble...Do Honor = Have Success!
- Respect is not so much a prize to be earned as it is a gift to be given.
- You can have and receive what you see in someone else if you give honor. Be the beneficiary of others greatness. Give honor to whom honor is due.
- Honor is a courageous disposition that chooses to speak, see, and believe the best even when the worst has been displayed.
- When you honor God, you allow God to prove His Godness in your life. Malachi 3:10,11
- Respect is the breeding ground for Love.
- Honor is the antidote against insecurity.
- Respect is the breeding ground for intimacy.
- If you honor God - God will honor you.
- When you give honor to others you rob yourself of insecurity.
- Faith is your Divine AUTO-RESPONSE to submission to Authority. Faith then, can grow one way AUTOMATICALLY: Greater submission and understanding of Authority equals GREAT FAITH.
- Dishonor brings disunity. The devil wants to DIS the Church! Overcome evil by not dishonoring those who have dishonored you!
- Honor is the ONE THING that makes everything in life work the way God intended it to.
- Honor is not given because it is deserved by the recipient. It can only be given out of a heart of honor from one who is honorable.
- Humility must be ascribed before honor can be prescribed.
- LeaderTip of the Day #19: Your ability to give honor will determine long-term success. There is never a reason to sow or show dishonor.
- Don't make people have to earn your respect. Respect is one of the greatest gifts you can give another.
- Speak what God says over people's lives and in doing so you empower them with an advantage because of your words.
Other voices on Honor
- A fair reputation is a plant, delicate in its nature, and by no means rapid in its growth. It will not shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like that gourd, it may perish in a night.
- A good name is like precious ointment; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
- A man who is known to be strictly honest, may be ever so poor, but he has the purses of all the community at his disposal--for all know that if he promises to return what he borrows, he will never disappoint them.
- A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
- A person's a person, no matter how small.
- A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
- A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.