Quotes about Character

But we must be transformed more and more into the likeness of Christ. That is the purpose of discipline.

If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.

That is, humility should be as much a part of us as the clothes we wear. We wouldn't think of appearing before other people without our clothes. And we shouldn't think of appearing before other people without deliberately clothing ourselves with an attitude of humility.

The good that God works for in our lives is conformity to the likeness of His Son.

It means we believe that God causes all events in our lives, whether good or bad as we judge them, to work together to conform us more and more into the likeness of Christ. It means we give thanks in all circumstances - not for the circumstance considered in itself, but for God's promise to use these circumstances to conform us more to Christ.

The perfect righteousness that we pursue is unattainable in this life. But if we hunger and thirst for it and diligently pursue it, over time we will grow more and more into the person God wants us to be.

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.

he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.