Quotes about Behavior

Rooting out bad habits is not enough. If we merely attack what is wrong, we create a vacuum that will inevitably be filled by some new behavior or addiction that does not shape our worldview according to the gospel. The solution, I believe, is discipleship, the process of becoming more like Christ.

Worldly love (licentiousness) seeks to endorse or embrace everything. It begins from the false dichotomy that we either accept without question people's beliefs and behavior (unless it is obviously destructive to someone else) or we are unloving. As a result, we cannot address underlying sin or rebellion. Thus, love is set as opposite to judgment.

It's ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently.

A cat is an example of sophistication minus civilization.

Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate.

The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas — that's what my grandma taught me.

Flies spread disease — keep yours zipped.

Television has changed a child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.The slothful man saith, There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?