Character is the capital accumulation of personal decisions illuminated by sincere worship and love, and consummated in brotherly service. [1] A righteous character is constituted by the co-ordination of idea-decisions, ideals, and divine truth. [2]
What man himself takes with him as a personality possession are the character consequences of the experience of having used the mind and spirit circuits of the grand universe in his Paradise ascent. [3] Character is defined as the love of service. [4] A strong character consists in the correlation of a factual science, a moral philosophy, and a genuine religious experience. [5]
Some degree of recognition and a certain amount of appreciation are essential to the development of human character. [6]
Strong character, commanding personality, is only acquired by converting the natural urge of life into the social art of living, by transforming present desires into those higher longings. [7] This is the keynote of the whole educational system: character acquired by enlightened experience. [8] Creators forge out strong, noble, and experienced character by the anvils of necessity and the hammers of anguish. [9]
Personality is basically changeless; that which changes—grows—is the moral character. Jesus never taught character building; he taught character growth. [10] A hopeful courage contribute mightily to the development of strong and noble characters. [11] Jesus was the perfectly unified human personality. He unifies life, ennobles character, and simplifies experience. [12]
Every man should ensure that the intellectual and moral foundations of character are such as will adequately support the superstructure of the enlarging and ennobling spiritual nature. [13]
Marriage, with its manifold relations, is best designed to draw forth those precious impulses and those higher motives which are indispensable to the development of a strong character. [14] Character can be perfected in partnership with God. [15] Strong characters are not derived from not doing wrong but rather from actually doing right. [16]
Heredity lies at bottom of all character; but an ideal inheritance is not all, the influence of an inferior environment virtually neutralized this magnificent inheritance. [17] A display of specialized skill does not signify possession of spiritual capacity. Cleverness is not a substitute for true character. [18]
The dead theory of even the highest religious doctrines is powerless to transform human character. What the world of today needs is the truth: “Not in word only but also in power and in the Holy Spirit. ”. [19]
Passing through death does not bestow a noble character by itself. Real religion should not foster moral indolence and spiritual laziness by encouraging that vain hope. [20]
After survival from death, the ascending personality is in great measure guided by the character patterns inherited from the human life. [21] Trustworthiness is the true measure of self-mastery, character. [22] It requires a great and noble character, having started out wrong, to turn about and go right. [23]
The unfailing kindness of Jesus touched the hearts of men, but his stalwart strength of character amazed his followers. [24]
The number seven is basic to the central universe and the spiritual system of inherent transmissions of character. [25]
Secoraphic Discerners of Spirits and Solemnities of Trust unerringly reflect the actual moral and spiritual character of any individual concerned in a focal exposure. [26]