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Character Can Be

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


2025

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