Quotes about Character

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self.

Where there is humility, there is more success, and lasting success.

The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in yourself.

It is easier for the leaders to reject the prophecy and the prophet, particularly if there are some unresolved character issues in the life of the prophet. It provides a legitimate reason to reject the word in the eyes of the people, though not necessarily in the eyes of the Lord. Prophecy has a way of testing our true motives.

The main characters in a novel must necessarily have some kinship to the author, they come out of his body as a child comes from the womb, then the umbilical cord is cut, and they grow into independence. The more the author knows of his own character the more he can distance himself from his invented characters and the more room they have to grow in.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Billy Graham once said, "We are the Bibles the world is reading. We are the creeds the world is needing. We are the sermons the world is heeding.

We tend to become the decisions we make. The more we choose something, the more we become that something. We are all in the process of solidifying our identities by the decisions we make. With each decision we make, we pick up momentum in the direction of that decision.

So it is, I believe, in every area of our lives. The more we choose something, the harder it is to choose otherwise, until we finally are solidified—eternalized—in our decision. The momentum of our character becomes unstoppable.