Quotes about Character

Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.

Young man, make your name worth something.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

God's idea is for us to become the Word of God, in such a way that men can read the Word by looking at our lives.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.