You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Character
When this is lost, all is lost – Billy Graham
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
– Billy Graham –
Trials Teach Us – Charles Spurgeon
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Conflict develops character – Leonard Ravenhill
You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
What character is – Dwight L. Moody
Character is what a man is in the dark.
– Dwight L. Moody –
Cultural Holiness – Jerry Bridges
Many Christians have what we might call a “cultural holiness”. They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.
– Jerry Bridges –
Proven in Character – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A Christian life proves itself not in words, but character. No one is a Christian without character.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
Growing in Grace – JC Ryle
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
– JC Ryle –
Walking the Talk – William Perkins
God abhors Godly speech which is not joined with a Godly life (Psalm 50:16-17).
– William Perkins –
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