Character and Conduct – 3 May – Sympathy
Nothing but the Infinite pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
Character and Conduct – 2 May – The Science of Social Life
For manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal nature, and of noble mind.
Character and Conduct – 1 May – The Science of Social Life
to be eager to give pity to men, and forgiveness to their wrong; to desire with thirst to bind up the broken heart of man, and to realise our desire in act – this is to thirst for God as Love.
Character and Conduct – 30 April – The Science of Social Life
Our social insolences, our irritating manners, our censorious judgment, our venomous letters, our pinpricks in conversation, are all forms of deliberate unkindness, and are all evidences of an ill-conditioned nature.
Character and Conduct – 29 April – The Science of Social Life
If for every outburst of hasty temper, and for every rudeness that wounds us in our daily path, we were to demand an apology, require an explanation, or resent it by retaliation, daily intercourse would be impossible.
Character and Conduct – 28 April – Ill-Nature
HOW is ill-nature to be met and overcome? First, by humility: when a man knows his own weaknesses, why should he be angry with others for pointing them out?
Character and Conduct – 27 April – The Unamiable
OF all mortals none are so awfully self-deluded as the unamiable.
Character and Conduct – 26 April – Reparation
WHEN it is our duty to do an act of justice it should be done promptly. To delay is injustice.
Character and Conduct – 25 April – Forgiveness
What am I brother for, but to forgive?
Character and Conduct – 24 April – Reconciliation and Forgiveness
COULD a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
