Christian Conduct Quotes

#1. Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.

Gordon D. Fee

#2. The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.

Richard Sibbes

#3. It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,
not only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe

Leo Tolstoy

#4. As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

Jerry Bridges

#5. Theology is a serious quest for the true knowledge of God, undertaken in response to His self-revelation, illumined by Christian tradition, manifesting a rational inner coherence, issuing in ethical conduct, resonating with the contemporary world and concerned for the greater glory of God.

John Stott

#6. The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.

Elizabeth George

#8. Beauty and true wealth are always thus cheap and despised. Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Alice Sebold

#10. The greatest conduct is love in action.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. No people are true Christians who do not think constantly of how they can lift their brother and sister, how they can assist their friends, how they can enlighten mankind, how they can make virtue the rule of conduct in the circle in which they live.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. Our conduct is an advertisement for or against Jesus Christ. That's why unity in the body of Christ is so important.

Elizabeth George

#13. We are citizens of heaven.
We must conduct ourselves, worthy of our calling, faith in Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

Billy Graham

#15. Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.

Billy Graham

#16. In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

Albert C. Barnes

#17. The great guardian principle of all conduct in the church of God is personal responsibility to the Lord.

John Nelson Darby

#18. Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).

John Calvin

#19. What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

Bruce L. Shelley

#20. Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

Max Weber

#21. A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Mary Roach

#22. I think that most Christians would be better pleased if the Lord did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to heaven at last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#23. Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

Patti Smith

#24. So often we try to develop Christian character and conduct without taking the time to develop God-centered devotion. We try to please God without taking the time to walk with Him and develop a relationship with Him. This is impossible to do.

Jerry Bridges

#25. Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be.
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else ...

H.P. Lovecraft

#26. The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

John Wycliffe

#27. People will respond to higher standards quicker than low ones. Pure
Christian love dows not presuppose approval of all conduct.

Carly Fiorina

#28. Is Christianity just another special-interest group, clawing for political power? Or, even if Christians are acting as God's spokesmen, must Christians always conduct themselves politically as if Christianity were just another special-interest group? Do Christians conduct evangelism this way?.

Gary North

#29. The destruction of the Bison as a food source is analogous to the destruction of the people

Anonymous

#30. We modern Christians are long on talk and short on conduct.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#31. A simple word or phrase on a blank sheet of paper gathers momentum as I wonder at what it could mean, where it could take place, why, and what if? . . . And then, I write.

Tyrean Martinson

#32. He was a whole mess of almosts, of mismatched pieces.

Brenna Yovanoff