Quotes about Disposition

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.

There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis, because it guarantees a complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost canonical status in Protestant theology. But now we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

The full manifestation of the power of this death in your disposition and conduct depends upon the measure in which the Holy Spirit imparts the power of the death of Christ.

The moral miracle of Redemption is that God can put into me a new disposition whereby I can live a totally new life.

Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.

Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? How could you conceive such a deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God!”

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which sets bounds to the passions

If anything is a mystery to you and it is coming in between you and God, never look for the explanation in your intellect, look for it in your disposition, it is that which is wrong.