CHARACTER-GENERAL
Jesus Christ
said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes
to a man's real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index
to a man's true character. All through Scripture there is an intimate
correlation between the development of a man's character and how he handles his
money.
Richard C. Halverson
The measure
of every man’s virtue is best revealed in time of adversity – adversity that
does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.
Character is
the one thing we make in this world and take with us into the next. The
circumstances amid which you live determine your reputation; the truth you
believe determines your character. Reputation is what you are supposed to be;
Character is what you are. Reputation is what you have when you come to a new
community; Character is what you have when you go away. Reputation is made in a
moment; Character is built in a lifetime. Reputation grows like a mushroom;
Character grows like an oak. Your reputation is learned in an hour; Your character is does not come to light for a year. A
single newspaper report gives your reputation; a life of toil gives you your
character. Reputation makes you rich or makes you poor; Character makes you
happy or makes you miserable. Reputation is what men say about you on your
tombstone; Character is what angels say about you before the throne of God.
Your character is what God knows you to be. Your reputation is what men think
you are.
The supreme
test of goodness is not in the greater but in the smaller incidents of our
character and practice; not what we are when standing in the searchlight of
public scrutiny, but when we reach the firelight flicker of our homes; not what
we are when some clarion-call rings through the air, summoning us to fight for
life and liberty, but our attitude when we are called to sentry-duty in the
gray morning, when the watch-fire is burning low. It is impossible to be our
best at the supreme moment if character is corroded and eaten into by daily
inconsistency, unfaithfulness, and besetting sin.
F.B. Meyer
Our Daily Walk. Christianity Today, v. 36,
n. 10.
Character
could be defined as living consistently with who God is and who I am.
Shepherding a Child’s Heart, Shepherd
Press, 1995, p. 200. Used by Permission.
The
only thing that walks back from the tomb with the mourners and refuses to be
buried is the character of a man. What a man is survives him. It can never be
buried.
J.R.
Miller
When we die
we leave behind us all we have, and take with us all we are.
Lead your
life so you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Author
Unknown
You
can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.
Author Unknown
Sow a
thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character;
sow a character, reap a destiny for yourself, your family, your church and your
world.
Character is
made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.
Character
can never be summoned in a moment of crisis, if it has been squandered through
years of compromise and rationalization.
Author
Unknown
Character
is built on daily decisions. Never let character give way to convenience.
Author
Unknown
The final estimate of men shows that history cares not an
iota for the rank or title a man has borne, or the office he has held, but only
the quality of his deeds and the character of his mind and heart.
C.W. Hall
Samuel Logan Brengle, Salvation
Army, 1933, p. 274.
The test of
Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
He is rich or
poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The real man is one who always finds excuses
for others, but never excuses himself.
Henry
Ward Beecher
Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
Our
true character comes out in the way we pray.
Character may be manifested in the great
moments, but it is made in the small ones.
The virtue of
a man ought to be measured, not by his extra-ordinary exertions, but by his
everyday conduct.
What a man rejoices in is a fair test of his character. To be glad
when evil prevails, or to rejoice in the misfortunes of others is indicative of
great moral degradation.
W. Graham Scroggie
The Love Life: A Study of 1
Corinthians 13, Pickering and Ingils, n.d, p. 44.
A good character is the best tombstone. Those
who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have
withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
The thing
that reveals character is involuntary response, not
planned response. Your character isn’t manifest by what you prepare to do. It’s manifest by what you’re not prepared for and how you
react to that, that involuntary reaction. That shows your character. We can all
plan for those spiritual experiences, to some extent. It’s those things that
catch us off guard and reveal the real weakness of our hearts that tell us who
we really are.
John MacArthur
The Restoration of a Sinning Saint. The article
originally appeared (http://www.gty.org/Resources/Sermons/2391_The-Restoration-of-a-Sinning-Saint)
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