Quotes About Character

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

Honestly, happy. This happened for a reason. By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith. I'm glad I stayed true to myself.

Do you think that a man is renewed by God's Spirit, when except for a few religious phrases, and a little more outside respectability, he is just the old man, the same character at heart he ever was?

What you do in secret tells you who your God is.

We must, by God's grace, embody the vision. If not, we are duplicitous.

God does not make our choices easier because temptation is his character development curriculum.

Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.

There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally nailed who this guy was!

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

I want to play trailer trash; I swear to God.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

By God's design, I believe our hearts and minds are shaped by Story. It's how we learn. It's how we make sense of the world. Characters, situations, moral consequences are all around us.

With God, it isn't who you were that matters; it's who you are becoming.

It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Holiness is not a series of do's and don'ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

If I know anything about the character of God after fifty years of ministry, I know that God hates abortion.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

God is always better than he has to be. You can count on that.

We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.