Quotes about Temperament
Even with all the best intentions in the world, given our different temperaments, backgrounds, and the way we process our data and information, we are going to step on one another's toes. Two people with absolutely good will can deeply hurt one another. Good people hurt one another because we all come at reality in different ways. That's why, for Jesus, the only way to achieve union is through forgiveness, not through making sin impossible.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
— Max Lucado
come, follow Me." Luke 18:22 Where our individual desire dies and sanctified surrender lives. One of the greatest hindrances in coming to Jesus is the excuse of our own individual temperament. We make our temperament and our natural desires barriers to coming to Jesus. Yet the first thing we realize when we do come to Jesus is that He pays no attention whatsoever to our natural desires.
— Oswald Chambers
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
— Oscar Wilde
A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.
— Joseph Addison
Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.
— LM Montgomery
I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; when I am angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
This much I have learned: human beings come with very different sets of wiring, different interests, different temperaments, different learning styles, different gifts, different temptations. These differences are tremendously important in the spiritual formation of human beings.
— John Ortberg
Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
— Max Lucado
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
— Martin Luther
Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
— GK Chesterton
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher