Quotes About Character

People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.

God is more concerned about your heart than your performance. If your heart is right, your performance will eventually catch up.

According to the New Testament, God wills that the church be a people who show what God is like.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

God cannot be less than Himself. And God is good. And active. And faithful. And He cares.

God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

I say this as a big sister in the faith hoping someone might learn an easier way. Arrogance does not bode well. It attracts the rod of God.

Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.

God had to do something IN me before He could do something THROUGH me.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.

God tests His people through hardship.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Our conduct will never change God's character.

I don't really care what a public figure thinks. I care about what he does. Let God probe his inner heart.