Bad character Quote by Randy Alcorn

“The Beatitudes reveal the profile of the Christian, the character of the one who has had a life-changing encounter with the grace of God.…

— Anonymous

“The Beatitudes are no spiritual “to do list” to be attempted by eager, rule-keeping disciples. It is a spiritual “done” list of the qualities…

— Ronnie McBrayer

“When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him…

— Jefferson Bethke

“You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which…

— Samuel Rutherford

“I have often wondered why people never want to put a stone monument of the Eight Beatitudes on a courthouse lawn. Then I realize…

— Richard Rohr

“But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that…

— Ellen G. White

“Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.”

— Jack Kerouac

“I also saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that…

— John Piper

“Lukewarm people gauge their morality or 'goodness' by comparing themselves to the secular world. They feel satisfied that while they aren't as hard-core for…

— Francis Chan

“But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“how much Jesus had broken away from the historically conditioned attitudes of his time, for the prevailing idea at that time was that good…

— John A. Sanford

“Jesus always interpreted hardship in light of the end of the story, and at the end of the story we will be without shame.”

— Edward T. Welch