Character and Conduct – 19 July – Right Use of Speech
we must let nothing pass our lips that charity would check; we must be always ready to confess our ignorance, and to be silent
Category: Prayer
Character and Conduct – 18 July – Tolerance
NOTHING, in our Lord’s wisdom, strikes me more than His moderation with regard to error.
Character and Conduct – 17 July – The Open Mind
NARROW-MINDEDNESS is a cause of self-sufficiency. We are slow to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
Character and Conduct – 16 July – Argument
PREJUDICE is opinion without judgment.
Character and Conduct – 15 July – Argument
TO speak wisely may not always be easy, but not to speak ill requires only silence.
Character and Conduct – 14 July – Argument
SPEAK fitly, or be silent wisely.
Character and Conduct – 13 July – Conversation
Those who really converse, reason without arguing, joke without punning, skilfully unite wit and reason, maxims and sallies, ingenious raillery and severe morality.
Character and Conduct – 12 July – Conversation
one cannot well be a good listener when one is eager to speak.
Character and Conduct – 11 July – Egotism
THE pest of society is egotists.
Character and Conduct – 10 July – Gossip
WHEN people run about to disseminate some scrap of news which they alone possess, the result is not usually beneficial either to character or to mind.
Suffolk Vicar 