Character and Conduct – 10 May – The Spectrum of Love
We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made much of peace on earth.
We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made much of peace on earth.
Try hard to be humble, to be free from all conceit, to question your own opinions, to give up your own way, to put simplicity first among all excellences of character, to be ready to think yourself in the wrong, to prefer others to yourself;
An angry person is generally impolite; and where contention and ill-will are, there can be no courteousness.
May we put away from us the satire which scourges and the anger which brands: the oil and wine of the good Samaritan are of more avail.
Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
ANY man – with the heart of a man and not of a mouse – is more likely than not to behave well at a pinch; but no man who is habitually selfish can be sure that he will,
Surely there can be no ‘yeah but, no but, yeah’ if we dare to proclaim that we are Open to God, Open to All? After all isn’t the only response God makes to us ‘Yes and Amen’ ? (2 Cor.1v19-21). Can we offer any less? Can we, dare we, bear all this calumny and abuse and remain un-defended? Not biting back, refusing to turn away those who abuse us and others, and instead learn only to love and then love again?
We are sure to go on closing doors of sympathy, and narrowing in the interests and opportunities of work around us, if we let ourselves imagine that we can quickly measure the capacities and sift the characters of our fellow-men.
Nothing but the Infinite pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
For manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal nature, and of noble mind.