Precept & Practice – JANUARY 21 – Character

Character is not ready made, but is created bit by bit and day by day.

Edna Lyall

A good and honourable character is a safe provision for every event and every turn of fortune. 

Schiller

There are no circumstances so poor but that character may display itself and make itself therein.   Strength of character lies not in demanding special circumstances, but in mastering and using any that may be given.   Our work and daily contact with our fellows form our scene of action, and God blesses with a peculiar blessing the efforts to put to profit, not some self-selected occasion, but the actual conditions in which we find ourselves

Canon Scott Holland (Creed and Character)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW