Character and Conduct – 31 March – Hypochondriacs
‘My dear sir, there are times when I know I am possessed of the Devil, and then I never let myself speak!’
Category: Being and Doing
Character and Conduct – 30 March – Lessons of Suffering
TO have suffered much is like knowing many languages. You have learnt to understand all, and to make yourself intelligible to all.
Character and Conduct – 29 March – Invalids
The sick-bed or the prison is as welcome as the harvest-field or the battlefield, when once your soul has come to value as the end of life the privilege of seeking and of finding Him.
Character and Conduct – 28 March – Invalids
Their weak voices spoke gospels. The hands they seemed to clasp were really clasping theirs.
Character and Conduct – 27 March – Physical Morality
THE preservation of health is a duty. Few men seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Character and Conduct – 26 March – The Duty of Physical Health
WHEN we are out of sorts things get on our nerves, the most trifling annoyances assume the proportions of a catastrophe. It is a sure sign that we need rest and fresh air.
Character and Conduct – 25 March – The Duty of Physical Health
The duty of physical health and the duty of spiritual purity and loftiness are not two duties; they are two parts of one duty
Character and Conduct – 24 March – Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
for there may be as much of God’s will in minor things, as much of God’s will in taking good bread and pure water, as in keeping a good conscience or living a pure life.
Character and Conduct – 23 March – Service
EVERY Christian is the servant of men, always and everywhere, without respect to the distinctions of sex, or class, or nationality, or creed.
Character and Conduct – 22 March – Service
Jesus is the leper whom the saint kissed, and the child the monk carried over the stream, and the sick man the widow nursed into health, after the legends of the ages of faith.
