Character and Conduct – 18 June – Temperance
It is easier in many cases to pluck out the right eye or to cut off the right hand than to discipline and employ them.
Character and Conduct – 17 June – Spiritual Balance and Proportion
A WELL-GOVERNED mind learns in time to find pleasure in nothing but the true and the just.
Character and Conduct – 16 June – Public Opinion
SUPPOSE any man shall despise me. Let him look to that himself. But I will look to this, that I be not discovered doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.
Carry That Weight – Words for those in the Funeral Profession
Whenever we put our own cares to one side and carry the weight of another’s grief we imitate Jesus who leads us through death to the life after life
Character and Conduct – 15 June – Public Opinion
We forget that while we are not required to judge our neighbours, we are required to judge ourselves.
Character and Conduct – 14 June – The Code of Society
THERE is no commoner danger than that of accepting the code of the society in which you live as the rule of right.
Character and Conduct – 13 June – Egotism
He who is always enquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him.
Character and Conduct – 12 June – Humility
HUMILITY is the hall-mark of wisdom.
Character and Conduct – 11 June – Conceit
Pride mars, blights, and withers whatever it touches. It begets assumptions that are very belittling as well as hard to bear.
Character and Conduct – 10 June – Pride
THE foundation of pride is the wish to respect one’s self, whatever others may think; the mainspring of vanity is the craving for the admiration of others, no matter at what cost to one’s self-respect.
