Character and Conduct – 25 March – The Duty of Physical Health
The duty of physical health and the duty of spiritual purity and loftiness are not two duties; they are two parts of one duty
The duty of physical health and the duty of spiritual purity and loftiness are not two duties; they are two parts of one duty
Fierce weather has a way of shaking the fidgets out of my system. Not just the cobwebs of life but the things that I’ve been clinging on to for no good reason other than they are mine and nobody else’s; and such things always weigh me down instead of setting me free.
for there may be as much of God’s will in minor things, as much of God’s will in taking good bread and pure water, as in keeping a good conscience or living a pure life.
EVERY Christian is the servant of men, always and everywhere, without respect to the distinctions of sex, or class, or nationality, or creed.
However, we can’t always blame the world around us for the noise within us. Sometimes we just don’t want to listen, or more correctly we want our voice to be the only one speaking.
Vengeance is the ultimate form of silliness. It accomplishes nothing because it cannot restore anything.
Jesus is the leper whom the saint kissed, and the child the monk carried over the stream, and the sick man the widow nursed into health, after the legends of the ages of faith.
CHRISTIAN greatness is born of willingness to lay the lowliest duties on yourself, and the way to be first is to be ready to remain last.
It is very sad when, in our church fellowships, we allow our inner rabbit to run wild. Instead of turning cheeks we slap each other in the face,
OF all bad habits despondency is among the least respectable, and there is no one quite so tiresome as the sad-visaged Christian who is oppressed by the wickedness and hopelessness of the world.