Character and Conduct – 11 October – Prayer

IT IS abundantly clear that answered prayer encourages faith and personal relations in a way which broad principles only cannot effect.   As the Spectator put it many years ago, much that would be positively bad for us if given without prayer, is good if sent in answer.

We feel (do we not?) that all the evil of the world springs from mistrust of God.   Nothing can recover us from this state of alienated unrest like answered prayer.

Life of F. W. Crossley, RENDEL HARRIS

PRAYER will in time make the human countenance its own divinest altar;  years upon years of true thoughts, like ceaseless music shut up within, will vibrate along the nerves of expression until the lines of the living instrument are drawn into correspondence, and the harmony of visible form matches the unheard harmonies of the mind.

The Choir Invisible, JAMES LANE ALLEN

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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.