Quotes About Disposition

Holiness is more than purity. In Scripture we see that cleansing precedes holiness. (2 Cor. 7:1; Eph. 5:26,27; 2 Tim. 2:21) Cleansing is the taking away of that which is wrong; liberation from sin. Holiness is the filling with that which is good, divine, with the disposition of Jesus.

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.

ANIMOSITY  (ANIMO'SITY)   n.s.[animositas, Lat.] Vehemence of hatred; passionate malignity. It implies rather the disposition to break out into outrages, than the outrage itself. They were sure to bring passion

Such a kittenish disposition in her, I called it; for it is not so much the love of power that predominates in her mind, as the love of playfulness: And when the fit is upon her, she regards not whether it is a China cup, or a cork, that she pats and tosses about: But her sport will certainly be the death of Lord G's happiness.

Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In

but we no more choose our passions than our features or complexion.

Whole object of intellectual education is formation of logical disposition

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

Attitude is your thought life turned inside out

Virtue, I fear, has, in a great degree, taken its departure from our Land, and the want of disposition to do justice is the source of the national embarrassments," he concluded.5

Beautify also attitude and character, not only face and dress

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.

Confidence is the mark of a hopeful disposition.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchaseable by it.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

Well, for people who like that kind of thing, I think that is just about the kind of thing they'd like.

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

The one necessary thing .— A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.

The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold, just now the world became perfect!'—thus thinks every woman when she obeys out of entire love. And women must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.