Character and Conduct – 4 September – Bereavement

PARTING and forgetting?   What faithful heart can do these?   Our great thoughts, our great affections, the Truths of our life, never leave us.   Surely they cannot separate from our consciousness;  shall follow it whithersoever that shall go;  and are of their nature divine and immortal.

THACKERAY

I CAN only say that I sympathise with your grief, and if faith means anything at all it is trusting to those instincts, or feelings, or whatever they may be called, which assure us of some life after this.

Tennyson – a Memoir, by his Son

WHAT is it when a child dies?  It is the great headmaster calling that child up into his own room, away from all the under-teachers, to finish his education under his own eye, close at his feet.   The whole thought of a child’s growth and development in heaven instead of here on earth, is one of the most exalting and bewildering on which the mind can rest.

PHILLIPS BROOKS

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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.