Character and Conduct – 9 October – Prayer
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
WE DO not present our supplications before Thee for our righteousness, but for Thy great mercies.
IF YOU want your neighbour to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you.
…and so we learn to listen for and to love ‘the still small voice’ in which He speaks to our hearts.
Jesus reminds us again and again that only the little ones are welcomed into God’s Kingdom. Why do we find it so difficult to heed His call?
RELIGION consists not in knowledge, but in a holy life.
CALL him not heretic whose works attest
His faith in goodness by no creed confessed.
Whatever in love’s name is truly done
To free the bound and lift the fallen one
‘He must increase, but I must decrease.’ (John the Baptist)
When we learn to follow the first follower of Jesus we discover that the Christian life is about learning to grow smaller.
TO HIM, as to so many, truth is so infinitely great that all we can do with our poor human utterances is to try and clothe it in such language as will make it clear to ourselves, and clear to those to whom God sends us with a message,
This is the hope for the world, that we shall learn to love, and in learning that, unlearn all anger and wrath and evil-speaking and malice and bitterness.