It has been impressing on my for quite some time now - character is much more important than personality. Well, I'm reading the "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" right now and it's only confirming my conviction on this. Covey speaks candidly about the differences between CHARACTER ETHICS and PERSONALITY ETHICS. I don't have time to explain here so maybe you could pick up the book, but it's some good stuff. Here are a few quotes in relation the the aforementined subject of character versus personality.
It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors (personality). But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our character.
In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives when we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigm from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.
Jesus probably couldn't agree more.
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