Pride Blooms
The harvest of hate is a wasteland bearing nothing but dust and ashes. The fruit of inclusion is a rainbow of flowers that brings joy wherever it is allowed to bloom.
Character and Conduct – 31 May – Repentance
REMORSE and repentance are two very different things. Repentance leads back to life; but remorse ends often in the painless apathy and fatal mortification of despair.
Character and Conduct – 30 May – Conscience
CONSCIENCE is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety,
Character and Conduct – 29 May – Sin
LOOKING within myself, I note how thin aplank of station, chance, or prosperous fate, doth fence me from the clutching waves of sin;-
Character and Conduct – 28 May – Sin
I HAVE often observed in the course of my experience of human life, that every man, even the worst, has something good about him;
Character and Conduct – 27 May – Sins of the Spirit
The sins that we respectable people commit lightly every day, of pride and indolence and indifference to the sufferings of the poor, may be worse in His sight than the most flagrant sins of those who know no better.
Character and Conduct – 26 May – Sin
You cannot be good and do wrong. You cannot be righteous and do unrighteousness.
Character and Conduct – 25 May – Sin
But the habit of mind which leads us to palliate our sins and find good excuses for them, has this dangerous tendency, that it blinds us to the evil of evil.
Character and Conduct – 24 May – Sin
TRIED by final tests, and reduced to its essential elements, sin is the preference of self to God, and the assertion of the human will against the Will of God.
Character and Conduct – 23 May – Temptation
WE always meet the temptation which is to expose us when we least expect it.
