Quotes About Character

What we should see in the real Beatitudes is not merely that the words of Jesus exalt good character instead of bad but that good character brings happiness and bad character brings misery.

When we offend everybody, we've declared truth without grace. When we offend nobody, we've watered down truth in the name of grace. John 1:14 tells us Jesus came full of grace AND truth. Let's not choose between them, but be characterized by both.

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his money. RICHARD HALVERSON

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.

Style, on the other hand, is the art of bringing your defining individual features to the fore, regardless of what others might expect or find acceptable:

He reminded Biff of a character in a book that he'd read last summer. It was one of the most memorable and wonderful books Biff had ever read, but, as often happened, he couldn't remember the title, author, or name of the character. And yet, at the time he read it, he felt the book had enriched his life as nothing had for a long time.

Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.

It is important to understand that it is a prayer life that builds character that honors God

hold the view that all philosophizing on life's purpose is ultimately founded upon two fundamental assumptions, or conclusions. The first is, Does God exist? and the second, If God exists, what is His character or nature?

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to 'be perfect,' as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

true spirituality will never submit to pride.

Perhaps living in that hope now will make us act less petty on this side of heaven.

That is why God's great desire is that we see our hearts before Him as He does, recognizing that we are not qualified to make moral judgments apart from Him. Like Job, when we come to Him as Creator and Designer, Revealer and Comforter, Mediator and Savior, we find that He is also the Strengthener and Restorer. On the basis of what we know, we can trust His character for what we do not know.

every weakness in a capable person is generally a strength abused. The same applies to culture.

But there is more to it than that. My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known—not the famous, not saints, but

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..

Dad, said Will, his voice very faint. Are you a good person? To you and your mother, yes, I try. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will. I know everything worth knowing about myself- And, adding it all up...? The sum? As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right.

For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog.

She was too wonderful a character to be allowed to die and I realize now that I should have allowed her to appear at hte end of my book. [Ray writes about the character Clarisse]

I am a passionate, not an intellectual writer, which means my characters must plunge ahead of me to live the story

if you're a miserable sinner in one shape, you're a miserable sinner in another.