Quotes about Behavior

The rule for us all is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you love your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

All evils to which so many become addicted begin in the mind and in the way one thinks.

Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness.

He sins because he is a sinner. Fundamentally, on the inside, man is a sinner, and that accounts for his actions. I am sure that many people in that day said of the Assyrians,

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour" (Titus ii. 10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked.

Be very sure of this--people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment. They try to believe it is false and useless, because they don't like to believe it is true. An evil lifestyle must always raise an objection to this book. Men question the truth of Christianity because they hate the practice of it.

Good feelings and desires are useless if they are not accompanied by action.

The immense importance of "adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour"(Titus 2:10), and making it lovely and beautiful by our daily habits and tempers, has been far too much overlooked.

Be very sure of this--people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

People make nothing of God's authority. God threatens, but they despise His threatening. They make nothing of dishonoring God. They care not how much their behavior is to His.