Character and Conduct – 18 October – Our True Selves and Our Traditional Selves
It is notorious that a man may go on uttering false assertions about his own acts till he at last believes in them:
It is notorious that a man may go on uttering false assertions about his own acts till he at last believes in them:
BEWARE of despairing about yourself.
If we esteem our obedience to rule, and self-imposed restraints, for their own sake, we effectually destroy their power to train and elevate.
AND be you sure that sorrow without resolute effort at amendment is one of the most contemptible of all human frailties;
Resolves…
To watch over a growing habit of uncharitable judgment
Speak, act, work quietly, as though you were praying, as indeed you ought to be.
THE distinguishing mark of religion is not so much liberty as obedience,
MEN find Christ through their fellow-men, and every glimpse they get of Him is a direct message from Himself.
It is in the power of the great Christian Sacrament, the great human sacrament, to become that rallying place.
THERE may be Worship without Words.