Be Diligent Quotes

“Finally”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Diligent (Mark): Serving Others as You Walk with the Master Servant

“Mark wrote to a Roman audience who had little interest in a Jewish Messiah but a lot of interest in the story of this servant named Jesus. There is no genealogy in Mark’s gospel because a servant’s lineage is of little consequence. There is no mention of Jesus’ birth when kings came to worship Him and brought gifts of gold”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Diligent (Mark): Serving Others as You Walk with the Master Servant

“The world’s philosophy is that you are 'great' if others are working for you, but Christ’s message is that greatness comes from our serving others.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Diligent

“Faithful women were the last at the cross on Friday and the first at the tomb on Sunday. What a contrast to the disciples, who had boasted that they would die for Him! The church of Jesus Christ owes much to the sacrifice and devotion of believing women.”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Diligent

“Jesus placed a great deal of importance on the hearing of the Word of God. In one form or another, the word hear is used thirteen times in Mark 4: 1–34. Obviously, our Lord was speaking, not about physical hearing, but about hearing with spiritual discernment. To “hear” the Word of God means to understand it and obey it (see James 1: 22–25).”
― Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Diligent