Quotes about Character

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

The second kind are invited by bad character, and the problems such a person has then cannot be put right until he puts himself right. It is not something a proud man can do, because proud men see no wrongness in themselves.

Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.

Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Faith that is not evidenced by a life of integrity is not biblical faith at all.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

The world doesn't need more great leaders, it needs more great people who lead.