Be Diligent Quotes

“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

“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

“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