Character Can Be
- Sarah Ind
- Dec 5, 2021
- 5 min read
Updated: Feb 28, 2025
A choice
Internal
Influence
Our worth
Principle
Being good
Our legacy
Reputation
A good name
A signature
What we are
Christlikeness
Our moral self
The whole life
A habit of will
A visible token
Moral structure
The fear of God
A rank in itself
A mark impressed
A personal monogram
The root of the tree
A personal trade-mark
An imprint on the soul
Our noblest possession
Steady moral qualities
The state of the heart
Persistent moral virtue
Strength of moral fibre
The presence of virtues
What we are in the dark
Discipline and austerity
Moral or ethical quality
Never excusing ourselves
A personal superscription
An unassailable integrity
The crown of a moral life
The motive behind the act
Moral virtue or excellence
The display case of Christ
The crown and glory of life
Moral excellence and firmness
Right action and right motive
The essence of Christlikeness
The dearest earthly possession
The excellence of moral beings
The product of the Holy Spirit
How we respond to circumstances
The reaction from circumstances
Nature cultured and disciplined
Stable and distinctive qualities
What we do when no one is looking
An estate in the general good-will
Constantly acting a particular way
Conformity into the image of Christ
What sets us apart from one another
The sum of qualities that defines us
The evaluation of our moral qualities
Principles, pillars, values or virtues
The triumph of ideals in personal wills
A moral identity within a life narrative
Integrity, courage, loyalty, and fortitude
Like a tree with reputation like its shadow
The sum of our moral habits and dispositions
A consistent manifestation of Jesus in our life
An accounting of our qualities or peculiarities
Acting upon principle in the tests of daily life
The mental and moral qualities distinctive to us
To have a heart aiming to please and glorify God
The result of the Spirit's work, not our own doing
Who we are because of our relationship with Christ
Aligning our lives so our behaviours are Christlike
Moral order through the medium of individual nature
An essential aspect of Christian living and ministry
Moral discipline, moral attachment and moral autonomy
The aggregate of traits forming our individual nature
Traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life
The result of the Holy Spirit’s work of sanctification
The only treasure we can take from this world to the next
The values we hold, and how we put their values into action
The purity of heart that God gives becoming purity in action
Natural tendencies brought under the sway of the moral motive
Not possible, entirely or in part, without God's intervention
What helps us weather the storms of life and keep us from sin
The collection of qualities that differentiates us from others
A settled habit or bent of will, seen in its outcome in conduct
Gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness
The life unseen, hidden within, yet evidenced by that which is seen
The sum of our disposition, thoughts, intentions, desires, and actions
The noblest contribution which we can make for the benefit of posterity
The result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time
A product of judgment, discretion, and choice — born from our free agency
The willingness to die to our own agendas, to die to our own conveniences
A description of who we are - and what we are called to be in our entirety
A collection of personality traits within our behaviour that shows who we are
The complex of mental and ethical traits marking and often individualizing us
That alone which can secure and render permanent every other earthly possession
The deliberate effort to develop virtues that are good for us and good for society
Our integrity, attitudes, moral fibre, disposition, and how we treat those around us
A mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect
What makes us distinct from others, often with a particular emphasis on moral qualities
Consistently doing the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason
Having a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts
Something that encapsulates the fruit of the Spirit, and involves God’s continued work in us
The peculiar qualities, impressed by nature or habit on us, which distinguish us from others
How our habits, motives, and thoughts relate to morality, particularly as it concerns integrity
A disposition to express behaviour in consistent patterns of functions across a range of situations
Whenever we choose to respond to a situation in God’s way instead of following our natural direction
Our natural individuality brought under discipline, and organized into the structure of a true moral being
That final type of self, that ultimate habit of will, into which our whole activities at last shape themselves
The raw material of nature and temperament, woven into the strong, well-knit texture of a fully moralized person
Distinguished or good qualities which are esteemed and respected or are ascribed to a person in common estimation
The autonomy to make ethical decisions always on behalf of the common good and the discipline to abide by that principle
The presence or lack of virtues such as empathy, courage, fortitude, honesty, and loyalty, or of good behaviours or habits
Being committed to a set of higher ideals and to acting, and if need be, sacrificing, for the greater good of our community
Presenting the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control
Self-control, quick and unquestioning obedience to duty, joyful contempt of hardship, and zest in difficult and arduous undertakings
Our intellect, thoughts, ideas, motives, intentions, temperament, judgment, behaviour, imagination, perception, emotions, loves, and hates
The Spirit of God dwelling in the believer's heart that produces a love for God and others, as well as a desire to deny sin and self in order to please God
A state concerned with choice, lying in a mean relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it
The discernment, willingness and determination to make and carry out proper moral, ethical and spiritual choices regardless of the circumstances, pressures and tendency to do otherwise
The pursuit of truth, godliness, righteousness, love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, patience, perseverance, meekness, humility, self-control, compassion, thankfulness, forgiveness, contentment, and unity
The ability to discern God's right way from the wrong, and to voluntarily surrender our own will to do what is right in God's sight and, with the promised supernatural help, to resist the wrong even under pressure and temptation