Character and Conduct – 11 March – The Hallowing of Work
…nothing mars or misleads the influence that issues from a pure and humble and unselfish character.
Category: Character and Conduct
Character and Conduct – 10 March – Evil is Wrought by Want of Thought
NO alms-giving of money is so helpful as alms-giving of care and thought; the giving of money without thought is indeed continually mischievous;
Character and Conduct – 9 March – Satan’s Opportunities
Deadly vices are nourished in the weak diseased bodies that are penned, day after day, in filthy crowded tenements of great cities.
Character and Conduct – 8 March – Work – To Cure the Voice of the Past
THE real work of charity is not to afford facilities to the poor to lower their standard, but to step in when calamity threatens and prevent it from falling.
Character and Conduct – 7 March – Work – Effective Reforms
IF you are moved with a vague desire to help men be better men, you must know that you can do it not by belabouring the evil but by training the good that there is in them.
Character and Conduct – 6 March – Work – Effective Reforms
The thought of spiritual poverty, of spiritual destitution, is crowded out. We treat the symptoms and neglect the disease itself.
Character and Conduct – 5 March – Doing our Best
EXPERIENCE shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
Character and Conduct – 4 March – The Sacredness of Work
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Character and Conduct – 3 March – ‘Doing’ more than ‘Feeling’
OUR Lord always brings back to mind that doing is more than feeling.
Character and Conduct – 2 March – Wasted Emotions
We are guilty to man, and guilty before God, when we lose our powers in inglorious ease.
Suffolk Vicar 