{"id":1071,"date":"2012-07-07T06:07:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T10:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2012-07-07T06:07:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-07T10:07:37","slug":"building-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/building-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Galatians 5:22, 23).<br \/>\nThese precious graces are but the principles of God\u2019s law carried out in the life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Love,<\/strong> n. 1\u00a0an intense feeling of deep affection:<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> babies fill parents with intense feelings of love; their love for their country. <strong>&lt;SPECIAL USAGE&gt;<\/strong> &#8211; a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone: it was love at first sight; they were both in love with her; we were slowly falling in love. &#8211; <strong>(Love)<\/strong> a personified figure of love, often represented as Cupid. &#8211; a great interest and pleasure in something: his love for football; we share a love of music. &#8211; affectionate greetings conveyed to someone on one&#8217;s behalf. &#8211; a formula for ending an affectionate letter: take care, lots of love, Judy. <strong>2<\/strong> a person or thing that one loves: she was the love of his life; their two great loves are tobacco and whiskey. <strong>&lt;SPECIAL USAGE&gt;<\/strong> &#8211; BRIT., INFORMAL a friendly form of address: it&#8217;s all right, love. &#8211; (a love) BRIT., INFORMAL used to express affectionate approval for someone: don&#8217;t fret, there&#8217;s a love.<br \/>\n<strong>3<\/strong> (in tennis, squash, and some other sports) a score of zero; nil: love fifteen; he was down two sets to love. <strong>&lt;ORIGIN&gt;<\/strong> apparently from the phrase play for love (i.e., the love of the game, not for money); folk etymology has connected the word with French l&#8217;oeuf &#8216;egg&#8217;, from the resemblance in shape between an egg and a zero. ? v. [trans.] feel a deep romantic or sexual attachment to (someone): do you love me? <strong>&lt;SPECIAL USAGE&gt;<\/strong> like very much; find pleasure in: I&#8217;d love a cup of tea, thanks; I just love dancing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Longsuffering, <\/strong>long-suf\u00b7fer\u00b7ing <em>adj<\/em>. having or showing patience in spite of troubles, esp. those caused by other people:<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> his long-suffering wife.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy,<\/strong>\u00a0Joy n. a feeling of great pleasure and happiness:<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> tears of joy; the joy of being alive.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peace<\/strong>, n. 1\u00a0freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility:<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> you can while away an hour or two in peace and seclusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gentleness<\/strong>,\u00a0adj. (gen\u00b7tler, gen\u00b7tlest) 1\u00a0(of a person) mild in temperament or behavior;<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> kind or tender: he was a gentle, sensitive man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goodness<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>good\u00b7ness<\/strong>,\u00a0n. the quality of being good, in particular:<\/p>\n<p><strong>faith<\/strong> n. 1\u00a0complete trust or confidence in someone or something:<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> this restores one&#8217;s faith in politicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>meek<\/strong> adj. quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive:<br \/>\n<strong>eg:<\/strong> I used to call her Miss Mouse because she was so meek and mild; the meek compliance of our politicians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Temperance, tem.per.ance,<\/strong> n. abstinence from alcoholic drink: [as adj.] the temperance movement. See note at ABSTINENCE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Galatians 5:22, 23). These precious graces are but the principles of God\u2019s law carried out in the life. Love, n. 1\u00a0an intense feeling of deep affection: eg: babies fill parents with intense feelings of love; their love for their country. &lt;SPECIAL USAGE&gt; &#8211; a deep romantic or sexual attachment to someone: it was love at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[447,445,446,442,444,441,448,443,449],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-readingstudy","tag-faith","tag-gentleness","tag-goodness","tag-joy","tag-longsuffering","tag-love","tag-meekness","tag-peace","tag-temperance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}