Character and Conduct – 6 May – Where Love is God is

WHERE Love is, God is. He that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God.   God is Love.   Therefore love.   Without distinction, without calculation, without procrastination, love.   Lavish it upon the poor, where it is very easy;  especially upon the rich, who often need it most;  most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for whom perhaps we each do least of all.   There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure.   Give pleasure.   Lose no chance of giving pleasure.   For that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit.   ‘I shall pass through this world but once.   Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.   Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

The Greatest Thing in the World, HENRY DRUMMOND

LET the weakest, let the humblest remember, that in his daily course he can, if he will, shed around him almost a heaven.   Kindly words, sympathising attentions, watchfulness against wounding men’s sensitiveness these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.   Are they not almost the staple of our daily happiness?   From hour to hour, from moment to moment, we are supported, blest, by small kindnesses.

F. W. ROBERTSON

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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.