Quotes about Character

The things that we love tell us what we are.

Even though my natural acts are good they have a tendency, when they are only natural, to concentrate my faculties on the man that I am not, the one I cannot be, the false self in me, the character that God does not know. This is because I am born in selfishness. I am born self-centered. And this is original sin.

TO say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. If, therefore, I do anything or think anything or say anything or know anything that is not purely for the love of God, it cannot give me peace, or rest, or fulfillment, or

Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

Humility is the surest sign of strength.

Don't fool yourself by thinking you can talk ugly about somebody and then act lovingly toward them. You can't. Your actions are going to fall right in line with your words. That's a biblical principle.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.

The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.