Quotes about Character

It's not my name that's at stake.

God couldn't care less about protocol. If He did, Jesus would have chosen the Pharisees as His disciples. But that isn't who Jesus honored.

Success is when those who know you best respect you most.

Judge not, by the extent of one's wealth, but by the means used to obtain it.

Never leave the impression that you're the hero or the smartest

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

A healthy church is a congregation that increasingly reflects God's character as his character has been revealed in his Word.

It is only in the context of understanding something of God's character, of his righteousness and perfection, that we begin to understand the tremendous nature of saying that God truly is love, and his love has a depth, texture, fullness, and beauty to it that we, in our present state, can only begin to wonder at.

You aren't what's been done to you but what Jesus has done for you. You aren't what you do but what Jesus has done. What you do doesn't determine who you are. Rather, who you are in Christ determines what you do.

Perseverance is a principle that should be commendable in those who have judgment to govern it

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.