Character and Conduct – 11 June – Conceit
Pride mars, blights, and withers whatever it touches. It begets assumptions that are very belittling as well as hard to bear.
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Character and Conduct – 10 June – Pride
THE foundation of pride is the wish to respect one’s self, whatever others may think; the mainspring of vanity is the craving for the admiration of others, no matter at what cost to one’s self-respect.
Character and Conduct – 9 June – Flattery
SELF-LOVE is the greatest Flatterer in the World.
Character and Conduct – 8 June – Calumny
THE power men possess to annoy me I give them.
Character and Conduct – 7 June – Calumny
IF any one tells you such a one has spoken ill of you, do not refute them in that particular; but answer, had he known all my vices, he had not spoken only of that one.
Character and Conduct – 6 June – Faults
IT is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Character and Conduct – 5 June – Faults
Character and Conduct – 5 June – Faults TOO many take the ready course to deceive themselves; for they look with both eyes on the failings and defects of others, and scarcely give their good qualities half an eye: on the contrary, in themselves they study to the full their own advantages, while their weaknesses and defects… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 5 June – Faults
Character and Conduct – 4 June – Hearing Criticism
A MAN should never be ashamed to say he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.
Character and Conduct – 3 June – Heredity
ANY insistence on heredity would have depreciated responsibility, and Jesus held every man to his own sin.
Character and Conduct – 2 June – Heredity
What course then did the father take, in the case before us, to pacify the angry passions of his ill-natured son?
…the son was supplied with valid arguments – stated in the last verse of the chapter – against his conduct, but he was first plied with love.
Suffolk Vicar 