Quotes about Character
Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.
— John Ortberg
Failure isn't a character quality. It's just an event. How you respond to failure is your character.
— Rick Warren
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.
— Ambrose of Milan
God will test you because He wants you to mature. He wants you to develop a walk with Him that is not based on your fluctuating emotions, but on your commitment to Him as you learn to walk by faith.
— Greg Laurie
You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.
— Tertullian
God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.
— AW Tozer
Faith is not just what we believe internally. It's how we behave externally.
— Mark Driscoll
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.
— Charles Spurgeon
Faith always shows itself in the whole personality.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
— RC Sproul
If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.
— JC Ryle
There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson