Character and Conduct – 28 January – Triviality
TRIVIALITY is the modern equivalent for worldliness, the regard for the outward and the visible. The trivial mind is enmity with God, and it is of many kinds.
Character and Conduct – 27 January – Seeing One’s Life in Perspective
IF we wish to cultivate our higher nature we must have solitude.
Character and Conduct – 26 January – Life-Giver not Deed-Doer
CHRIST was not primarily the Deed-Doer or the Word-Sayer. He was the Life-Giver.
Character and Conduct – 25 January – Being and Doing
PERFECTION is being, not doing – it is not to effect an act, but to achieve a character.
Character and Conduct – 24 January – Being and Doing
Christ did not ground His Christianity in thinking, or in doing, but, first of all, in being.
Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson
Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson I HAVE referred to his chivalry only to find that in reality I was thinking of every one of the whole group of attributes which are associated with that name. Loyalty, honesty, generosity, courage; courtesy, tenderness, and self-devotion; to impute no unworthy motives and to bear… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 23 January – Character of R.L. Stevenson
Character and Conduct – 22 January – Character of Henry Drummond
Those who saw him in his illness saw that, as the physical life flickered low, the spiritual energy grew.
Character and Conduct – 21 January – The Habit of Admiration
Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
Character and Conduct – 20 January – Influence of Great Men
My sole fear was the fear of doing an unrighteous or unholy thing.
Character and Conduct – 19 January –Influence of Great Men
GLIMPSES into the inner regions of a great soul do one good.
