Character and Conduct – 14 February – Pleasure in Work
EVERY joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small.
EVERY joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small.
Fasting is not about giving up on stuff but instead is about giving up on the direction we face.
The reason why men fail is, in five cases out of six, not through want of influence or brains, or opportunity, or good guidance, but because they are slack;
As we get ready for the beginning of Lent it is helpful to remember that we do not need to travel this journey from the old ‘me’ to the real ‘me’ alone.
OF all work producing results, nine-tenths must be drudgery. There is no work, from the highest to the lowest, which can be done well by any man who is unwilling to make that sacrifice.
Every time we pray, or study, or work, we are receiving to give away.
Order is man’s greatest need and his true well-being.
Confusion is the enemy of all comfort, and confusion is born of procrastination.
To secure a great end, one must be willing to pay a great price.
Here, as everywhere in the field of man’s life, there enters that element of sacrifice without which no real achievement is possible.