Quotes About Character

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

What's the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don't change what's on the inside,were it really counts ?

Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.

I believe that in this life, we are defined not by the station in life into which we are born, nor by our pedigree, race, or religion, but by the choices we make.

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Religion is ... being as much like God as man can be.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.

God wants to produce the character of Christ in our lives because he knows that the more we become like him, the more fulfilled we will be.

Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.

The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.