Quotes About Character

It took only one, very quick, perusal of Ramsey Sage for Claire to know everything she needed to know about him. He was completely unfit to be anyone's mother. Or father. Or guardian.

Our actions, habits, character, and future are most definitely affected by our thoughts.

Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.

Reputation is made in a moment; Character is built over a lifetime.

The more time you spend with God, the more you will resemble Him.

God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

God's Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory.

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character Which makes the big decisions.

Make it your goal to employ the sweet speech that marks you as a wife after God's own heart.

Every act and choice you make is creating the real you and shaping your real life.

We must look to God for His grace and His power to perfect godly qualities in our lives.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Nurture the qualities in yourself that you desire in your friends.

When both you and your spouse actively focus on developing godly character qualities, the foundation of your marriage will be twice as strong.

Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.

Instead of becoming a woman of the world, become a woman of the Word.

I find that people aren't all one thing. One rather wishes they were for simplicity's sake, but isn't the truth that people are good and bad, simple and complicated, happy and sad, frightened and courageous? It's all a mix. We learn to take in everything about a person as disparate parts to the whole, and it's the whole that we love, even at moments when the other isn't who we wish her to be.

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Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless.

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

Of course nobody is required to stand in the field of honor...If you find it too challenging, you may always exit, and then you can remain a child. But if you wish to be a person of character, I'm afraid this is the only way. But it may be painful.