Quotes about Character

How you manage your appetite for reward is vital to who you are becoming.

We received it by asking. This means that even very gifted people are not necessarily mature Christians. They may not even have good character. Therefore, the gifts of the Spirit do not validate our walk with God.

James 4:6: "God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Free people can handle liberty because they have developed character through exercising the restraint dictated by their virtues. They are not the slaves of their physical desires; rather, they train their bodies to behave in order to fulfill the higher desires created by their own virtues.

Since we were created in the image of God, we become like the God we imagine (image).

Somebody once said, "Show me a man's friends and I will tell you about that man's character." We should love everybody and never neglect the poor or needy, but the people whom we allow to influence us really determine our future.

Even if the main people who influenced us were negative role models, as Christians, we now follow Christ as our example and hear the Holy Spirit calling us into our true identities. When we begin to act like royalty, issues that felt like mountains in our lives will become mere stepping stones to demonstrate our character.

And what is faith?" "The deliberate confidence in the character of God whether we understand or not.

The word theologian doesn't appear in the Bible. Old Testament writers used a warmer, user-friendly expression, describing people who "walked with God." A theologian takes a long walk through life with God — living in his presence, going his way, learning to see the world through his eyes, and getting to know his character so that trusting him in the dark

Eve was created to know and walk with God and to make him known to others by reflecting his character in her life. This is a woman's true path to fulfillment and meaning — the only way we will ever discover who we are and find our purpose. And it is accessible to all of us.

Conflict brings out the leader in us, transforms our lives from the mundane to the cosmic, and by God's grace forges us into more compassionate, selfless leaders.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.