Character and Conduct – 18 September – Pure Religion

RIGHTEOUSNESS in the Old Testament is not a theological, but an ethical word, and has to do not with a person’s creed, but with a person’s character.

Dr. JOHN WATSON

IN those days men were working their passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten Commandments, and the hundred and ten other commandments which they had manufactured out of them.   Christ said, I will show you a more simple way.   If you do one thing, you will do these hundred and ten things, without ever thinking about them.   If you love, you will unconsciously fulfil the whole law…   Love is the rule for fulfilling all rules, the new commandment for keeping all the old commandments, Christ’s one secret of the Christian life.

The Greatest Thing in the World, HENRY DRUMMOND

PURE religion as taught by Jesus Christ is a life, a growth, a divine spirit within, coming out in love and sympathy, and helpfulness to our fellow-men.

H. W. THOMAS

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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.