Quotes about Behavior
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
— Laurence Sterne
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
— Virginia Woolf
Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.
— Ernest Hemingway
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
— Joseph Heller
By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
— Philip Yancey
I do not know if that theory is correct, but I do know that singling out one behavior as "sin" and emphasizing it over others provides a convenient way of dodging our own need for grace. High-minded moralism and shrill pronouncements of judgment may help fundraising, but they undermine a gospel of grace.
— Philip Yancey
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
— Philip Yancey
He lambastes Catholics. He opposes the J. B. Phillips version of the Bible because Phillips had a friendship with C. S. Lewis, who drank beer and smoked a pipe.
— Philip Yancey
Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.
— Philip Yancey
One of humanity's most common character traits is ingratitude.
— Dennis Prager
We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.
— Dennis Prager