Character and Conduct – 21 March – Service
SERVICE implies self-giving. There is service which is just self-satisfaction, pleasing to the taste for doing and meddling, and there is service which is exactly measured to its pay. True service implies giving, the surrender of time or taste, the subjection of self to others, the gift which is neither noticed nor returned.
The Service of God, Canon BARNETT.
CHRISTIAN greatness is born of willingness to lay the lowliest duties on yourself, and the way to be first is to be ready to remain last.
Pastor Pastorum, HENRY LATHA.
NOBLENESS consists in a valiant suffering for others, not in making others suffer for us. The chief of men is he who stands in the van of men; fronting the peril which frightens back all others. . . . Every noble crown is, and on earth will for ever be, a crown of thorns.
Past and Present, CARLYLE.
NO one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to any one else.
DICKENS.
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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 them here readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.
Suffolk Vicar 