Quotes about Character

It is wicked to tell a person a lie about God because, if we come to believe the wrong things about God, we will think the wrong things about ourselves, and we will live meanly or badly.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Pride first, then the crash, but humility is precursor to honor.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us.

It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best, it reveals; and revelation is always formative - we don't know more, we become more. Our best users of language, poets and lovers and children and saints, use words to make - make intimacies, make character, make beauty, make goodness, make truth.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

When good men die their goodness does not perish,But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.

Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Hate-filled people easily believe and repeat slanderous lies about innocent men.

I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.