Quotes about Conduct
KEEP YOUR TONGUE FROM EVIL! For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good—whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile (treachery, deceit). 1 Peter 3:10
- Joyce Meyer
Are you conducting yourself properly so that when the world looks at you it sees God's character? Ask God to help you be a good witness at all times.
- Joyce Meyer
I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.
- Walter Brueggemann
commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses . . . along with anxiety and violence.
- Walter Brueggemann
Thus I have come to think that the fourth commandment on sabbath is the most difficult and most urgent of the commandments in our society, because it summons us to intent and conduct that defies the most elemental requirements of a commodity-propelled society that specializes in control and entertainment, bread and circuses … along with anxiety and violence.
- Walter Brueggemann
God calls us to have strength in our character and conduct, not simply a stiff upper lip in sorrow or a stubborn persistence during hardship. Secondarily, because the word is "passive voice," we know that the strength God demands He also provides. The strength does not come from a place inside us but a source beyond ourselves, namely, the Lord.
- James MacDonald
But if you believe that Jesus was wholly God, then to condemn His conduct is presumptuous. If you believe that He was not wholly God, but only partly or in some respects divine, you are a heretic. If you think He was not God at all, you are an infidel.
- Dorothy Sayers
In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.
- Dorothy Sayers
Personal liberty is not personal license.
- Billy Sunday
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
- Oscar Wilde
The precepts of the law may be comprehended under these three points: to live honestly, to hurt no man willfully, and to render every man his due carefully.
- Aristotle