Character and Conduct – 30 March – Lessons of Suffering
TO have suffered much is like knowing many languages. You have learnt to understand all, and to make yourself intelligible to all.
TO have suffered much is like knowing many languages. You have learnt to understand all, and to make yourself intelligible to all.
The sick-bed or the prison is as welcome as the harvest-field or the battlefield, when once your soul has come to value as the end of life the privilege of seeking and of finding Him.
Our Beloved looks upon us in the midst of all the mess of our sins and, not ‘blinching’ at all, demonstrates his love by stretching out His arms to embrace the whole world on the tree of Calvary.
This was not the only time since I have been in Holy Orders I have been threatened with a fire arm but it is the one when I prayed the deepest and hardest…
Their weak voices spoke gospels. The hands they seemed to clasp were really clasping theirs.
This is a great challenge for we who walk the way of faith. The more we walk, the more miracles happen, the more we are tempted to think we are miracle workers. The Baptist knew this was a dangerous path and always aimed to be small instead of the next big thing.
THE preservation of health is a duty. Few men seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
WHEN we are out of sorts things get on our nerves, the most trifling annoyances assume the proportions of a catastrophe. It is a sure sign that we need rest and fresh air.
Often, when presented with the challenges brought to us by the anawim, the little poor ones, of God we hesitate to help. We can be tempted to question their motives in the middle of their distress. How many times have the words, ‘But do they really need it’ been spoken about those who queue for food and other help outside churches?
The duty of physical health and the duty of spiritual purity and loftiness are not two duties; they are two parts of one duty