Quotes About Character

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.

Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Some of the qualities of # God must be merged into us before our # prayers can be fit for His acceptance.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.

When faced with trials, pray so that you cannot be the trial yourself.

The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.

The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short lived.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.