Character and Conduct – 2 April – Comfort’s Art
IT WOULD be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial.
GEORGE ELIOT.
TROUBLE is so hard to bear, is it not? How can we live and think that any one has trouble – piercing trouble – and we could help them and never try?
GEORGE ELIOT.
PITY makes the world soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
The Light of Asia, E. ARNOLD.
Ask God to give thee skill
For comfort’s art,
That thou may’st consecrated be,
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy!
For heavy is the weight of ill
For every heart,
And comforters are needed much
Of Christlike touch.
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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.
Suffolk Vicar 