“A lot of people confuse character with reputation, but the two are cousins rather than twins. Reputation is what other people think you are. Character is what God knows you are. Your reputation is what people perceive on the outside. Character is what you know is true on the inside. On my office desk sits a quote by nineteenth-century evangelist Dwight L. Moody: ‘If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.’”
James Merritt, Character Still Counts (Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 2019), 15.
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TOMORROW’S READING: Proverbs 29-31, 1 Thessalonians 4