Character and Conduct – 11 May – My Duty to my Neighbour
THERE is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself.
Category: Growing in God
Character and Conduct – 10 May – The Spectrum of Love
We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man. We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made much of peace on earth.
Character and Conduct – 9 May – Ungraciousness
Try hard to be humble, to be free from all conceit, to question your own opinions, to give up your own way, to put simplicity first among all excellences of character, to be ready to think yourself in the wrong, to prefer others to yourself;
Character and Conduct – 8 May – Without Jar or Jostle
An angry person is generally impolite; and where contention and ill-will are, there can be no courteousness.
Character and Conduct – 7 May – Oil and Wine
May we put away from us the satire which scourges and the anger which brands: the oil and wine of the good Samaritan are of more avail.
Character and Conduct – 6 May – Where Love is God is
Any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Vicky Pollard Goes to Church – a Sermon
Surely there can be no ‘yeah but, no but, yeah’ if we dare to proclaim that we are Open to God, Open to All? After all isn’t the only response God makes to us ‘Yes and Amen’ ? (2 Cor.1v19-21). Can we offer any less? Can we, dare we, bear all this calumny and abuse and remain un-defended? Not biting back, refusing to turn away those who abuse us and others, and instead learn only to love and then love again?
Character and Conduct – 4 May – Patience
We are sure to go on closing doors of sympathy, and narrowing in the interests and opportunities of work around us, if we let ourselves imagine that we can quickly measure the capacities and sift the characters of our fellow-men.
Character and Conduct – 3 May – Sympathy
Nothing but the Infinite pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
Character and Conduct – 1 May – The Science of Social Life
to be eager to give pity to men, and forgiveness to their wrong; to desire with thirst to bind up the broken heart of man, and to realise our desire in act – this is to thirst for God as Love.
Suffolk Vicar 