dictionary

Looking up God's dictionary......

Love : When extended to the unlovable.

Joy : Ability to be cheerful in the darkest hours.

Peace : Staying calm and secure when the world collapses around you.

Patience : to bear up under difficult circumstances, not with a passiveness, but with a hopefulness that resists negative thinking.

Kindness: the ability to act for the welfare of those taxing your patience.

Courage : To stand firm when you are all alone, abandoned and fearful.

Humility : To confess your pride and sin to one another.

Strength : Showing meekness, gentleness to the weaker

Self-Control : virtue of mastering one's sensual desires and emotions, given the overwhelming temptations.

Goodness = Godness

Evil = 1. absence of goodness
2. perversion of goodness
3. imitation, fakery of goodness
4. boasting of goodness

Integrity : The sustaining of all the virtues above.

Good character : Long-term sustanance of integrity.


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