Quotes About Personality

Cf. also Acts 3:14, 15: "But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One,…and put to death the Prince of life." Boldness (Acts 4:31) and confidence Acts 4:13) now characterized his personality since he had "been with Jesus" and since he had received the Holy Spirit.

The authority is God's. Although mediated through various styles, the fundamental authority of God in counseling must be evident in all biblical counseling. Any personality traits that interfere with, rather than mediate the message must be altered. That is why the Lord changed the apostle Peter from a weak, vacillating, fearful disciple to the bold fearless disciple who told the authorities, "We must obey God rather than men" (Acts 5:29).

Wherever the Spirit of the Lord is at work, one of the discernible evidences of His presence is changed personalities. Men can and do change. Peter and Paul did; so can you. Sanctification (personality change toward holiness) is the work of the Spirit through His Word.

Static living, static decisions, static personality is inconsistent with the biblical picture of the new life. Where there is life there is growth, 1 and growth means change. Growth means maturation; it means refining of ideas and ways of doing things. So a Christian counselee must not be allowed to plead that he is what he is and nothing can be done about it.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Unbelief about the existence and personality of Satan has often proved the first step to unbelief about God.

Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

Dis-moi ce que to manges, je te dirai ce que tu es -- (Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are)

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men.

Getting old always means a hardening of the main trait of one's character.

A culture which requires people to live in a way for which their evolution has not prepared them, which does not fulfill their innate expectations and therefore pushes their adaptability beyond its limits, is bound to damage their personalities.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

Boys will be boys... and so will most men.

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.

She didn't look like Louise. She didn't look much like anybody except herself.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

While in her heart Batty knew that Ginevra was a nice person, she sometimes couldn't help wondering if nice people could also be show-offs.