Quotes about Character
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
— John Piper
In the end, the only 'good name' that matters is not how men feel about us, but how God feels about us.
— John Piper
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
— John Piper
Humility is the soil in which everything good in the Christian life grows.
— John Piper
We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.
— John Piper
The true dimensions of a soul are seen in its delights. Not what we dutifully will but what we passionately want reveals our excellence or evil.
— John Piper
Of all the books which can be put into your hands, those which relate the labors and suffering of good men are the most interesting and instructive.
— John Piper
If we are not captured by his personality and character, then all our declarations of thanksgiving are like the gratitude of a wife to a husband for the money she gets from him to use in her affair with another man.
— John Piper
A leader leads by example, whether he intends to or not.
— John Quincy Adams
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
— John Quincy Adams
Occasional war is one of the rigorous instruments in the hands of Providence to give tone to the character of nations.
— John Quincy Adams
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
— John Wesley