Quotes about Behavior

I believe young people need rules. They will respond to discipline.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

Why is it that so many Christians make such lousy human beings?

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing."6

It has been said that the real measure of our sense of self is when we are with our parents for more than three days. At that point we need to ask ourselves how old we feel. Have we gone back to our patterns of behaving more in line with our childhood, or have we broken free from our past to live in what God has for us now?

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.

God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.

The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles