Quotes about Behavior

Older women likewise are to be reverent in their behavior, not malicious gossips nor enslaved to much wine, teaching what is good, so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind, being subject to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be dishonored.20

We must live in charity with all men, but familiarity with them is not desirable. It sometimes happens that someone personally unknown to us enjoys a high reputation, but that when we meet him, we are not impressed. Similarly, we sometimes imagine that our company is pleasing, when in reality we offend others by our ill behaviour.

Don't fool yourself by thinking you can talk ugly about somebody and then act lovingly toward them. You can't. Your actions are going to fall right in line with your words. That's a biblical principle.

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel.

Crimes the individual alone could never stand are freely committed by the group.

In our experience, as believers practice loving attitudes and behavior toward others inside and outside their faith community, unchurched friends and family don't have to be talked into church participation. They seek it out, drawn by the promise of love.

An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

As well as walking erect and disguising his tiredness, he also tried to avoid other symptoms of old age: meanness, mistrust, ill temper, resentment, and bad habits such as no longer shaving every day, repeating the same stories over and over, talking about himself, his ailments, or money.