Character and Conduct – 4 August – Friendship
Note what the great men admired – they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Category: Growing in God
Character and Conduct – 3 August – Influence
IT requires but little knowledge of society and history to assure us of the strong permeating invisible influence upon society at large of any body of men of clear thought, strong conviction, and disciplined conduct.
Character and Conduct – 2 August – Influence
Do we not all know how apt we are to become like those whom we see, with whom we spend our hours, and, above all, like those whom we admire and honour? For good and for evil, alas!
Character and Conduct – 1 August – Quench Not the Smoking Flax
THE best we can do for each other is to remove unnecessary obstacles, and the worst – to weaken any of the motives which urge us to strive.
Character and Conduct – 31 July – Quench not the Smoking Flax
‘QUENCH not the smoking flax’ – to which I add, ‘Never give unnecessary pain.’ The cricket is not the nightingale; why tell him so?
Character and Conduct – 30 July – Influence
A MAN who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
Character and Conduct – 29 July – Influence
There are germs of moral health or disease continually passing from us and infecting for good or ill those about us.
Character and Conduct – 28 July – Manners
Character and Conduct – 28 July – Manners THERE are many tests by which a gentleman may be known:- but there is one that never fails – How does he exercise power over those subordinate to him? How does he conduct himself towards women and children?… He who bullies those who are not in a position to resist,… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 28 July – Manners
A Sermon: A FOD Plod with God
When we walk closely with Jesus we find that even the debris of our lives becomes a source of joy and hope.
Character and Conduct – 27 July – Manners
MANNERS are the ornament of action, and there is a way of speaking a kind word, or of doing a kind thing, which greatly enhances its value.
Suffolk Vicar 