Character and Conduct – 31 January – The Art of Being Quiet
WE are too busy, too encumbered, too much occupied, too active!
WE are too busy, too encumbered, too much occupied, too active!
The art of being quiet is necessary to enable a man to possess his own soul in peace and integrity
IT is not sin so much as triviality which hides God.
TRIVIALITY is the modern equivalent for worldliness, the regard for the outward and the visible. The trivial mind is enmity with God, and it is of many kinds.
IF we wish to cultivate our higher nature we must have solitude.
CHRIST was not primarily the Deed-Doer or the Word-Sayer. He was the Life-Giver.
PERFECTION is being, not doing – it is not to effect an act, but to achieve a character.
Christ did not ground His Christianity in thinking, or in doing, but, first of all, in being.
Those who saw him in his illness saw that, as the physical life flickered low, the spiritual energy grew.
Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.