On CHARACTER

God is far more interested in your character than he is your comfort, or your career, because you're not taking your career to heaven, but you are taking your character.

-- Rick Warren

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Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

-- Horace Mann

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The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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Never ... think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. This thought should keep us humble. We are sinners, but we do not know how great. He alone knows who died for our sins.

-- John Henry Newman

A Little Help?

While this story is about a police officer and not a soldier, I love the message in both picture and story that "I'm here to help!"

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It seems that while taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, a policeman was interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at his uniform, she asked, "Are you a cop?" "Yes," he answered, and continued writing the report. "My mother said if I ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?" "Yes, that's right," he told her. "Well then," she said as she extended her foot toward him, "would you please tie my shoe?"

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Confidence ... or Arrogance? The Take-Down

There's a story told about Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight boxing champion. He's the one who used to say simply, "I am the greatest." He truly considered himself above the normal threats of daily life ... as, for instance, gravity.

One day he was on a flight when the passengers were told to fasten their seat belts. Seeing that Ali hadn't done so, one of the flight attendants asked him to fasten his belt.

Ali replied, "Superman don't need no seat belt."

.To which the flight attendant aptly replied, "And Superman don't need no plane either."

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