Edification Quotes

“Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.”
― Orrin Woodward

“Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open up new insights, they make new thoughts thinkable. They crowd us, they deflate our slovenly lifestyle, our thoughtless way of chattering and pissing away our time and energy and passion. Believe me, films can teach us a huge amount. And they give us a true picture of the way life is."
Mari laughed. "Of our slovenly lifestyle, you mean? You mean, maybe they teach us to piss our lives away with a little more intelligence, a little more elegance?”
― Tove Jansson, Fair Play

“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a a sense of sin which they already had... The "Gospels" [came] later, and were written, not to make Christians, but to edify Christians already made.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.”
― Ufuoma Apoki

“In our self-government, family government and circles of influence are we building and promoting a culture of life-giving edification or pursuing a death-oriented culture of entertainment? The first belongs to the Christian faith; the second is the progeny of the collapse of Rome.”
― Tim Yarbrough

“The next object of speaking in tongues is the edification of self”
― Sunday Adelaja

“It was not edifying to dwell on the failings of others.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine

“One’s like a closed bud, and most of what one reads and does has no effect at all; but there are certain things that have a peculiar significance for one, and they open a petal; and the petals open one by one; and at last the flower is there.”
― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“While edifying ourselves, we put our life in order and build it”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Edification elevates the spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Never call yourself an expert, rather, let others edify you and give you the title.”
― Isaac Mashman

“Good art is the sensuous presentation of those ideas which matter most to the proper functioning of our souls — and yet which we are most inclined to forget.”
― Alain de Botton, Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion