"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you"
About this Quote
The intent is less self-help than summons. “What is within you” isn’t a vague celebration of personal uniqueness; it’s the demanded emergence of faith, truth-telling, repentance, the Kingdom’s ethic. The subtext is that neutrality is a myth: buried conviction curdles into denial, hypocrisy, or fear. If the interior remains unexpressed, it doesn’t stay safely contained; it metastasizes. Salvation, by contrast, arrives through disclosure - the outward enactment of an inward transformation.
Context matters. Early Christian teaching repeatedly insists that the heart produces fruit, that light isn’t meant to be covered, that confession and witness are not optional accessories to belief. This saying also reflects a community under real social risk: to “bring forth” could mean public identification with an unpopular movement, with consequences. The brilliance - and the sting - is that it turns the question from “What will the world do to me?” into “What will my silence do to me?” It makes hiddenness itself the threat.
Quote Details
| Topic | Faith |
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| Source | Later attribution: Truth and History (Murray G. Murphey, 2008) modern compilation
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Christ, Jesus. (2026, February 7). If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-bring-forth-what-is-within-you-what-you-151748/
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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." FixQuotes, 7 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-bring-forth-what-is-within-you-what-you-151748/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.














