Character and Conduct – 14 May – Blessed are the Happiness Makers

HAVE you ever noticed how much of Christ’s life was spent in doing kind things – in merely doing kind things?   Run over it with that in view, and you will find that He spent a great proportion of His time simply in making people happy, in doing good turns to people.

The Greatest Thing in the World, HENRY DRUMMOND

TAKE life all through, its adversity as well as its prosperity, its sickness as well as its health, its loss of its rights as well as its enjoyment of them, and we shall find that no natural sweetness of temper, much less any acquired philosophical equanimity, is equal to the support of a uniform habit of kindness.   Nevertheless, with the help of grace, the habit of saying kind words is very quickly formed, and when once formed it is not speedily lost.  Sharpness, bitterness, sarcasm, acute observation, divination of motives – all these things disappear when a man is earnestly conforming himself to the image of Christ Jesus.   The very attempt to be like our dearest Lord is already a wellspring of sweetness within us, flowing with an easy grace over all who come within our reach.

F. W. FABER

BLESSED are the Happiness Makers.   Blessed are they who know how to shine on one’s gloom with their cheer.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

oooOOOooo

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.