Max Heindel Quotes

The walls of that grand edifice called a good character have to be worked at during life.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?'

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

Someone who's passed through the circumstances that I have has to make the decision either to be a good person or a bad person, and I decide to become better at every opportunity.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And maybe it is good for us to feel that way. It may make us more sensitive to what we do wrong and move us to repent and grow.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Jesus always pointed people towards a better version of themselves - particularly when they'd failed.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of hating what you're going through, maybe bless it because for some reason; it is going to build you into that person that you are proud of being.