Saturday 21 May 2022

Inspiring Quotes on Character

 

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."
- Billy Graham

"Character is what a man is in the dark."
- Dwight L. Moody

"You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict." 
- Leonard Ravenhill

"Great character, like massive roots, grow deep when water is sparse and winds are strong."
- Charles Swindoll

"It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them."
- Frederick W. Robertson

"The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision."- Helen Keller

"Never decide on anything or start to do anything while emotion is agitating like a roaring sea. Again, during that time even our conscience is rendered unreliable."
- Watchman Nee

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Those who are taken captive by Jesus see mission not merely as a practice preferred by God but as an aspect of his very character. He is mission. Core to understanding God's nature is the realization that 
God cannot not be about the business of mission." 
- Michael Frost

"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose 
strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own."
- Henry Ward Beecher

"4  But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.

 5  For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:"
-St. Peter, 1 Peter 3