Quotes about Behavior

As a parent you are never, ever dealing just with the words and actions of your children. You are always also dealing with the thing that controls their words and behavior: the heart.

This war is a battle for the control of your heart, and whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

Whatever functionally rules your heart will then shape the way you see life and your desires, and it will control your words and behavior.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

You and I don't always live what we say we believe. There is often a disconnect between our confessional theology and our street-level functional theology. There is often a separation between, on the one hand, the doctrines we say we have embraced and, on the other hand, the choices we make and the anxieties that we feel.

anger is always an issue of the heart before it is an act of physical aggression.

De wet is er niet alleen goed in om ons gedrag bloot te leggen, maar ook ons hart.

Sin is not just a matter of bad behavior. It is a condition of the heart. That's why you cannot free yourself from it.

When good things become controlling, they command the affection of our hearts and then shape our words and behavior. When this happens, they take the place in our hearts that only God should have.

everything you do and say in your life, every choice that you make, and everything you decide to invest in is a reflection of a system of internalized values in your heart.