Quotes about Character

Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.

What we say in private we must be willing to say with a heart burning with love and honor before the face of our leaders. If not, we will poison our spirits and it will manifest in the presence of our leaders.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice