Quotes about Character

As the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.

The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;

Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.

If sin bears an ethical character, then redemption is possible, and conversion is in principle the conquest of sin, the death of the old and the resurrection of the new man.

I so loved the nobility of your character, your wisdom, your chastity, your spirit, and indeed every aspect of your life that many people have said to me: What are you doing?

We are meek in the way we follow and fierce in the way we fight. In this manner, gentle and fierce meet and are comfortable.

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

honor begins in the heart and works its way out until it is expressed through our actions.

The actor is there to translate what's on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That's my philosophy.

We must look at the personality of Jesus and see him under various circumstances - circumstances not unlike our own - and then praise him by imitating him to the best of our ability.

Being hip, being popular, being cool, that's really easy. Until you have to make tough decisions. And when you have to make tough decisions, that veneer of coolness comes off real quick.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.