Quotes About Character

listen. 15Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

Grace doesn't give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this situation and become more mature in the future.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV).

Whatever you lend, let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and if you can contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

I recognize that what you believe doesn't matter in the slightest. All that matters is how you personally behave.

In truth, doing does not determine being; rather, being determines doing. It is only after we have a firm understanding of who we are that we know what to do with life.

In this section we will develop a fourfold definition of spiritual formation as (1) a process (2) of being conformed (3) to the image of Christ (4) for the sake of others.

I protested, 'A man is known by his deeds.' Oh, that's sure,' said Bono. 'Just like a house is known by its deeds. The deeds say who owns it, who sold it, and who'll be buying a new one when it gets knocked down.

A fictional character living in a nonfiction world.

Fair face does not equate to hallowed heart.

My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much character." "Which is the sort of thing males say when they don't know any women.

The influence of individual character extends from generation to generation.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

People are more than just the way they look.

But what was fortune? She had come to believe it was being exactly the same on the inside as on the outside. What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?

For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you.

don't forget the value of who you are no matter what kind of hat you are wearing.

At least, I thought in those early days, once I cast a spell, I would not have to learn it again. But even that was not true. However often I had used an herb before, each cutting had its own character. One rose would give up its secrets if it were ground, another must be pressed, a third steeped. Each spell was a montain to be climbed anew. All I could carry with me from last time was the knowedge that it could be done.

You are a better man than I.

This was a man who moved like the gods were watching: every gesture he made was upright and correct. There was no one else it could be but Hector