Quotes About Character

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.

It's not where we've been that matters to God. It's who we are becoming in Him.

The only way we can be of use to God is to let Him take us through the crooks and crannies of our own characters.

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

Say not that thou hast royal blood in thy veins; say not that thou art born of God if thou canst not prove thy pedigree by daring to be holy!

We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.

My worth to God in public is what I am in private.

While we worry about how fast we grow, God is concerned about how strong we grow.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

Every word about the God-breathed character of Scripture is meaningless if Holy Scripture is not understood as the witness concerning Christ.

In all unbelief there are these two things: a good opinion of one's self, and a bad opinion of God.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.

I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will.