Quotes about Behavior

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

The more you reaffirm who you are in Christ, the more your behavior will being to reflect your true identity.

You don't become a Christian by acting like one. You are not on a performance basis with God. He doesn't say, "Here are My standards, now you measure up." He knows you can't solve the problem of an old sinful self by simply improving your behavior. He must change your nature, give you an entirely new self—the life of Christ in you—which is the grace you need to measure up to His standards.

the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.

Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature

The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

We have pointed to the way of Jesus, and then through our behavior we have stood squarely in the path of anyone who might like to join it. Plainly, there is a time in our arguments to confess, and confession and changed lives have to be a key part of our arguments. When it comes our responding to hypocrisy, words will never be enough.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.