Quotes about Character
What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.
- Paul David Tripp
When I gossip, I confess the sin of another person to someone who is not involved. Gossip doesn't restrain sin; it encourages it. It doesn't build someone's character; it destroys his reputation.
- Paul David Tripp
You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.
- Paul David Tripp
The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.
- Paul David Tripp
Prayer finds its hope not in the qualifications of the one praying, but in the character and plan of the God who is hearing.
- Paul David Tripp
The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.
- Paul David Tripp
We are all the same; the character and quality of our life is forged in little moments. Every day we lay little bricks on the foundation of what our life will be. The bricks of words said, the bricks of actions taken, the bricks of little decisions, the bricks of little thoughts, and the bricks of small-moment desires all work together to form the functional edifice that is your marriage.
- Paul David Tripp
For the believer, harsh, critical, impatient, and irritated responses to others are always connected to forgetting or denying who we are and what we have been given in Jesus.
- Paul David Tripp
God is working right now, but not so much to give us predictable, comfortable, and pleasurable lives. He isn't so much working to transform our circumstances as he is working through hard circumstances to transform you and me.
- Paul David Tripp
Rather than suffering being connected to the bad things we have done, Scripture connects trials and difficulty to the good things God wants for us and is working to produce in us (see James 1:2—4).
- Paul David Tripp
Suffering doesn't so much change your heart as expose what has been in your heart all along.
- Paul David Tripp
Christians should be living so that sinners are attracted to them.
- Perry Stone