About Character

Speaks loudly

Operates within

Involves a choice

Involves sacrifice

Requires education

Influences our choices

Shown by little things

Refined by circumstance

Must be actively pursued

Begins with faith in Christ

Must be hammered and forged

To be preferred to strategy

Indicative of our personality

Developed through right choices

Built through virtuous behaviour

Free and above its circumstances

Built from our actions and habits

Built and learned as we follow God

Formed by our commitment to Christ

Formed through the grace of Christ

Cannot be developed in ease and quiet

Built in the circumstances of our lives

Influenced and developed by our choices

Built both through drama and the everyday

Develops in the full current of human life

Made possible only through faith in Christ

Built in the course of our inner confrontation

Is developed from thoughts, actions and habits

Demonstrated in actions but residing in the heart

Shown by the pleasure or pain that ensues on acts

Lived out in the reverence for and respect for God

Forged in the crucible of experience and affliction

Signified by the pleasure or pain that ensues on acts

Separated by faith from mere civility or secular morality

Shaped when we surrender to Christ’s plan and purposes for our life

Formed not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station

Gauged by general tendencies, not on the basis of a few isolated actions

Developed through a process involving experience, hard work, and learning from past mistakes

Summarizes the essence of our walk with Christ, which is exhibited back to Him and then to others

Formed from the swarm of little judgments made in the constant, habitual, hurried, routine acts of common life

Revealed not by occasional good deeds and occasional misdeeds, but by the tendency of the habitual words and acts

Built by God as we experience situations in which we are tempted to do the exact opposite of what character looks like

Being made every minute, as we walk and talk, eat and drink, marry and are given in marriage, work and play, go out and come in

Based on our tendency to take pleasure from self-realizing activity and our tendency to form friendly feelings toward others under specific circumstances