Character and Conduct – 1 January – New Year’s Day

HERE you stand at the parting of the ways;  some road you are to take;  and as you stand here, consider and know how it is that you intend to live.   Carry no bad habits, no corrupting associations, no enmities and strifes into this New Year.   Leave these behind, and let the Dead Past bury its Dead;  leave them behind, and thank God that you are able to leave them.

EPHRAIM PEABODY

A MAN’S true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right.

GEORGE LONG

NO aim is too high, no task too great, no sin too strong, no trial too hard for those who patiently and humbly rest upon God’s grace:  who wait on Him that He may renew their strength.

Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Disbelief, 

Bishop PAGET.

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These quotes are from ‘Character and Conduct’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.

Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1905 as a follow up to her volume of Daily Readings for members of the Being and Doing Guild who asked for an additional volume

In her preface Whishaw writes:

‘This collection of noble thoughts expressed by men and women of past and present ages who have endeavoured to leave the world a little better than they found it.’

It is my hope in publishing the her readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.