“What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?”
“Everyone makes mistakes, but only a person with integrity owns up to them.”
“There is no greater evil than men s failure to consult and to consider.”
“A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I m not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.”
“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply. God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater use in the Kingdom. You must pass the test first.”
“While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.”
“One thing I ve learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don t like anyone telling me how I m supposed to feel or think or what I m supposed to say.”
“Encourage literally came from in courage. The courage is put into you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.”
“Life is a test. It was designed to be so. It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasure; where we learn right from wrong; where we pass through both darkness and light. It is a time to make choices. And through this process we form our characters—some grand and glorious, some barely decent, and others just plain monstrous. ”
“(Kindness) is much more a sign of character than mere niceness. Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen. -David Levithan (Every Day)”
“God s plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God s method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. ”
“Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.”
“No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.”
“Character is like Structural Integrity in the field of engineering. A construction is believed to have structural integrity when it can withstand impact from anywhere and anything, functioning adequately for its desired purposes and service life, until a physical collapse proves otherwise. Integrity springs from the original Latin root integrum , which means Intact . A man has INTEGRITY when he remains INTACT, despite the IMPACT of forces that seek to sidetrack him. He will never confuse what is with what ought to be , EVEN WHEN what is will work in his favour. A man who will choose, not what the world forces his hands to choose, but what aligns with his destiny and will propel him to become what he is meant to become. Such men are few, such men should be me and you.”
“Your character determines how many followers you will have.”
“Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.”
“A man s character is best described in his epitaph”