Quotes About Behavior

when real doubt ensues it disrupts our usual behavioural patterns.

success can lead to acclaim that can undermine the habits of mind that produced the success.

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.

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.

He learned, like every good novelist, that human behaviour can neither be explained nor predicted, only rendered.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

Repentance, not proper behavior or even holiness, is the doorway to grace. And the opposite of sin is grace, not virtue.

Legalism is a subtle danger because no one thinks of himself as a legalist.

This is one of the difficulties and pleasures of studying the Inklings; Christians all, they offer, along with the expected 20th-century psychological explanations for behavior, unexpected spiritual ones.

Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing, and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

Good God, what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard. It is truly amazing.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes? That's

I'll remember you acting crazy!

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that, he said desperately. But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked. What's wrong with being natural? he demanded. Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all.

A few are addicted to mud. They wallow in it constantly." "They can't have many friends." "That's the funny thing! They have almost as many friends as the clean people. The trouble is, the friends are all the same kind of people.

In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams.

For no man is voluntarily bad; but the bad become bad by reason of an ill disposition of the body and bad education, things which are hateful to every man and happen to him against his will.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Habit is not unimportant.

Modesty is becoming in youth.

Now, can musicians use music to make people unmusical?'* 'Impossible.' 'Can skilled horsemen use their skill to make people bad horsemen?' 'No.' 'So can moral people use morality to make people immoral? Or in general can good people use their goodness to make people bad?'*