Quotes About Behavior

Reductionism is the key to explaining why idols lead to immoral behavior—why Romans 1 ends with a list of destructive and self-destructive behavior. When we dehumanize people in our thinking, we will eventually mistreat, oppress, abuse, and exploit them in our actions.

If Christians hope to offer the world a credible solution to toxic behavior in men, they must demonstrate that Christianity has the power to address it first of all among those within the church's own orbit of influence. The Bible calls men to be both tough and tender, both courageous and caring. Men who know they are made in God's image can

Why do idols invariably lead to destructive behavior? What is the connection? The link is that idols always lead to a lower view of human life.

When God gives people up to their idols, the result is always a reductionistic view of humanity—which ultimately unleashes harmful and destructive behavior. When we reduce people to anything less than fully human, we will treat them as less than fully human. When we define God as a something instead of a Someone, we will tend to treat humans as somethings too.

She was also correct that I was guided by my fear and my hope that my good behavior would buy my mother's love. It hadn't.

Andre had violated the international laws of war He had behaved as a common spy. Death by hanging was the usual punishment.

Today Lucy would probably be considered a victim of an obsessive-compulsive behavior disorder, a psychological means of reducing anxieties through the numbing repetition of an activity.

If spanking worked, we'd only have to do it once.

Men expected idiotic chatter from pretty women, so she had incorporated it into her routine.

But "stressed out" is not a neutral behavior; it is a sinful manifestation of an unquiet heart.

But "stressed out" is not a neutral behavior; it is a sinful manifestation of an unquiet heart. And it often brings a host of other sins with it.

because, honestly, which of us really understands why we do the things we do?

Humans are selfish and cruel and possessive and jealous and greedy. And violent. Violent above all. The only difference is… some of us are better at it.

Good and evil." I chuckle under my breath. "Such binary thinking. So simplistic. So boring. Everything is shades of gray, Emery. There is no such thing as good people or evil people. There are simply people. And some of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get what we want. I don't think you're one of them. Do you understand what I'm telling you?

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)

Men, in general, are but great children.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them. — Marshall Goldsmith

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.