Quotes About Character

Until he met the Lord Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus, the Apostle Paul spent his entire life being willing to have God remove all the defects of his character.

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty–they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.

Getting closer to home, is it a fully satisfying repentance if we only deal with the past, which cannot be changed? "Alas, what did I do?" I don't think so. Believers get closer to repentance instead by asking, "Alas, what kind of person was I that I could do that?

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

A man may be born a jackass; but it is his business if he makes himself a double one.

The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition.

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

Hadist riwayat Abu Bakar menyatakan bahwa Nabi bersabda, "Allah mengangkat derajatmu bukan melalui banyaknya salat dan berpuasa, namun berdasarkan kebaikan hatimu.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works; evil works do not make a wicked man, but a wicked man does evil works.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

We also know that God is no respecter of persons. A plain factory hand who does his work faithfully pleases God just as much as a minister of the Word.

In brief, trust not in any who exalt you, but in those who humiliate you. For this is the judgment of God:

For when the heart is evil, all its works are evil, no matter how splendid they are.

The vicious character of sin is brought out by the words "who gave himself for our sins." So vicious is sin that only the sacrifice of Christ could atone for sin.

It never does any good when one knave punishes another without first becoming good himself.

True, then, are these two sayings: "Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works";

True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.