Comments on: Manvotional: Character

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 02:15:22 +0000

This is a Biblical article, although it may not have meant to be. Good work, truth is truth no matter what it’s source.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:02:24 +0000

This is exactly the way I feel about life and how we as men should go about living it. True moral values must be upheld in order to preserve the good in mankind which I believe is slowly disappearing. We need to show our friends this so that they may see what living life truly is.

By: Vinicius

Vinicius — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:40:00 +0000

I am admired with so much wisdom and quality of the writing that I felt like just one read at it wouldn’t be enough.

By: Damar

Damar — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:37:56 +0000

Excellent post! Everything I am trying to be. Been following this ideal o mine for atleast half a year now. Striving and going the extra mile to the point of satisfaction no matter the drudgery

I feel like a titan every day of my life!

I feel awake!

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 06:48:53 +0000

If only people still spoke like this. Very moving. Thanks for the post.

By: Wil Kelley

Wil Kelley — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:19:57 +0000

For me the article did not succinctly define character.
I expected the article to tell me what character is and why I needed it.
I hoped the article would help me measure my own character and tell me how to improve it.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:49:35 +0000

Great article!

I do think humans have changed as life, for a lot of people, has become more comfortable. Toil and struggle builds character and comfort kills it.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:34:49 +0000

I always wonder what it was like for the common man living in times past such as this. Then I wonder if I could live back then. Would the people be as steadfast in their beliefs as the author says? Would they have more character? Did modern inventions really change us all that much?

Then I read something like this and realize that while the stuff we own may change, humans have more or less remained the same throughout the millennium.

By: Nkosana

Nkosana — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:53:14 +0000

Great article. It reminds me of an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson with the same title. It turnred my life around. Thanks again!

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:32:56 +0000

@ E.J. (October 17, 2011 at 12:14 am), who wrote:
“What is mean[t] by the phrase ‘A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning’? Does George Herbert imply that a good life is weighed in one handful? Isn’t a handful a small amount? What’s more valuable here, good life or learning?”

Good life. The George Herbert quotation implies that the lessons of experience, a.k.a. “the school of hard knocks,” are worth more than formal education. This is consistent with the author’s argument than the intellect is inferior to the heart, which is the seat of character.