Character and Conduct – 31 May – Repentance

WHAT is true contrition? Sorrow for sin in itself, not for sin’s consequences.

The Guided Life, Canon BODY

REMORSE and repentance are two very different things. Repentance leads back to life;  but remorse ends often in the painless apathy and fatal mortification of despair.

Dean FARRAR

PENITENCE is like the dawn…   It is the breaking of the light in the soul,-dark enough sometimes no doubt, but a darkness giving place steadily to the growing light.

Bishop WALSHAM HOW

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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.