Quotes About Character

God does not make us holy in the sense of character; He makes us holy in the sense of innocence, and we have to turn that innocence into holy character by a series of moral choices.

Holiness is the balance between my nature and the law of God as expressed in Jesus Christ.

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

A man is what he is on his knees before God, and nothing more.

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

More than anything else we should be concerned about meekness, or our standing in God's sight. If that standing is as it should be, nothing else matters. If it is not, nothing else counts.

When we are made right with God, we begin to think right, we begin to talk right, and we begin to act right.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

How can we claim to know God but deny Him in our action?

The greatest men stand on their values and pray on their knees.

Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.

When you forget who you are and whose you are, you start to compromise.

God doesn't act like the Church. No, instead, the Church must act like God.

God does not stereotype. Each of us is made magnificently unique.

Who can we claim to know God, and deny him by our actions.

Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

God will witness about every one of us