Character and Conduct – 29 March – Invalids
It may be that God used to give you plentiful chances to work for Him. Your days went singing by, each winged with some enthusiastic duty for the Master whom you loved… You can be idle for Him, if so He wills, with the same joy with which you once laboured for Him. The sick-bed or the prison is as welcome as the harvest-field or the battlefield, when once your soul has come to value as the end of life the privilege of seeking and of finding Him.
PHILLIPS BROOKS.
TO be well enough to work is the wish of my natural heart; but if that may not be, I know that ‘they also serve who only stand and wait.’ God will not require healthy men’s labour from you or me; and if we are poor in power and opportunity to serve Him, our widow’s mite will weigh against the gold ingots of His chosen apostles.
Memoir of George Wilson.
THE widow’s mite? Well, when they laughed at St Theresa because she wanted to build a great orphanage and had only three ducats to begin with, she answered, ‘With three ducats Theresa can do nothing, but with God and her three ducats there is nothing which Theresa cannot do.’
F. W. FARRAR.
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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 