Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
We want things to be easy for us and to come easy to us. But easy is not the way to develop your character. I don't know of one person whose character has been developed to admirable depths that do so through easy. It has always come through persevering through trials and dark seasons. It is in the dark where we can begin to see clearly. Our trials act as a refining fire, burning off and away what is not beneficial to our characters. Change to our character will only come through the trials and when we allow the trials to do their important work. Yes, character development is a choice. We must choose to let it happen. Resist it and stay immature, shallow, lacking life experience, and stagnant. Embrace the trials that bring change and you will emerge with depth, life experience, maturity, and living life forward.
We want things to be easy for us and to come easy to us. But easy is not the way to develop your character. I don't know of one person whose character has been developed to admirable depths that do so through easy. It has always come through persevering through trials and dark seasons. It is in the dark where we can begin to see clearly. Our trials act as a refining fire, burning off and away what is not beneficial to our characters. Change to our character will only come through the trials and when we allow the trials to do their important work. Yes, character development is a choice. We must choose to let it happen. Resist it and stay immature, shallow, lacking life experience, and stagnant. Embrace the trials that bring change and you will emerge with depth, life experience, maturity, and living life forward.
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