Quotes about Disposition

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The Spirit-filled believer will hate iniquity, injustice, and impurity; and he will militate against all of them. Because Paul hated the world, the world hated Paul. We, too, need this disposition of opposition.

Courage is the right disposition toward fear.

Your mental attitude is the most dependable key to your personality.

It is not so true that "prayer changes things" as that prayer changes me and I change things. God has so constituted things that prayer on the basis of Redemption alters the way in which a man looks at things. Prayer is not a question of altering things externally, but of working wonders in a man's disposition.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

But for the matter of that, Ursus, although eccentric in manner and disposition, was too good a fellow to invoke or disperse hail, to make faces appear, to kill a man with the torment of excessive dancing, to suggest dreams fair or foul and full of terror, and to cause the birth of cocks with four wings. He had no such mischievous tricks.

I've found that obedience to God creates quiet fulfillment in the present. There is a spiritual satisfaction that comes even in the midst of our trials. It is a demeanor that may not be as "showy" as gleeful happiness, but it is much less subject to moods and makes for much more permanent a disposition.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

Ruth's disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.