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CHARACTER
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."  - Abraham Lincoln

"Character is the most effective means of persuasion." - Aristotle

"Character is power." - Booker T. Washington

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to stay there." - John Wooden

"To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow

"Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody

"Your character is what you really are. Your reputation is only what others think you are." - John Wooden

CHANGE
"Many men today will change wives, children, businesses, anything, rather than change themselves. Real men face change and reality."
- Ed Cole

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson

CHRIST-LIKENESS
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi

CHURCH
"We're no longer fishers of men, but keepers of the aquarium, and we spend most of our time swiping fish from each other's bowls." - Dr. Kermit Long

"I have no objection to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work.”
- Brooks Atkinson

CIRCUMSTANCES
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

CITIZENSHIP
"A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country." - Mark Twain

COMFORT
""The true function of a preacher is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."
- Anonymous

COMMERCIAL CHRISTIANITY
"I am finished with commercial Christianity. It's powerless, spineless, and void of the Holy Spirit, driven by greedy and arrogant men who are clueless to what the true Spirit of Jesus looks like." - Anonymous

COMPASSION
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound." - Shakespeare

"Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Longfellow

COMPETITIVENESS
"I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up."
- Leo Durocher

CONSCIENCE
"Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go." - Billy Graham

Throughout his administration, Abraham Lincoln was a president under fire, especially during the scarring years of the Civil War. And though he knew he would make errors of office, he resolved never to compromise his integrity. So strong was this resolve that he once said, "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
"Conscience," said an Indian, "is a three-cornered thing in my heart that stands still when I am good, but when I am bad, it turns around and the corners hurt a lot. If I keep on doing wrong, the corners wear off and it does not hurt anymore."

CONDUCT
"Resolved: that all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved second: that whether others do or not, I will." - Jonathon Edwards

CONSISTENCY
"I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant who delivers in times of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely doing a good, straightforward job".
- D.D. Eisenhower

CONTENTMENT
"It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good too, tocheck up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy." - George Horace Lorimer

CONTRIBUTION
"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." - Eleanor Roosevelt

CORRECTION
When we as youngsters, would accuse our mother of picking on us her wise reply was, "All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you." - Judith Crist

COVETOUSNESS
"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men." - Charles Cale Colton

CREATION
"I look at the universe and know there’s an architect." - Jack Anderson

CREATIVITY
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin; a grass blade’s no easier to make than an oak." - James Russell Lowell

"Necessity is the mother of invention."
- Jonathan Swift

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father." - Roger von Oech

"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein.

CRITICISM
One time many years ago preacher Dwight L. Moody was criticized because of the evangelistic methods he used. Moody replied, "I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it."

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
- David Brinkley

"Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations, and misrepresentations which are uttered against him." - Henry Ward Beecher

"If I tried to read, much less answer, all the criticisms made of me, and all the attacks leveled against me, this office would have to be closed for all other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing this, down to the very end. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I had been right would make no difference. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me now will not amount to anything." - Abraham Lincoln

"Criticism is something you can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle

CULTURE
"The men in the Lewis and Clark expedition thought of themselves as explorers, not a war party. This has to be our attitude toward contemporary culture - we are not at war with them; we are explorers looking for the initiation of God’s kingdom in the culture, so we can come alongside it as ambassadors of His kingdom and partner with Him." - Todd Hunter


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