Character and Conduct – 30 September – Faith

FAITH is the communication of the Divine Spirit by which Christ as the revealed God dwells in our heart.   It is the awakening of the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry, ‘Abba Father.’

T. H. GREEN

HE THOUGHT with Arthur Hallam, that ‘the essential feelings of religion subsist in the utmost diversity of forms,’ that ‘different language does not always imply different opinions, nor different opinions any difference in real faith?’   ‘It is impossible,’ he said, ‘to imagine that the Almighty will ask you, when you come before Him in the next life, what your particular form of creed was;  but the question will rather be, ‘Have you been true to yourself and given in My name a cup of cold water to one of these little ones ?’

Tennyson – a Memoir, by his Son

RELIGION consists not in knowledge, but in a holy life.

Bishop TAYLOR

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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.