Character and Conduct – 8 January – The Footpath to Peace TO be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to… Continue reading Character and Conduct – 8 January – The Footpath to Peace
The church is called to be a ‘Son et Lumière’ presentation that lets the light of God’s love shine brightly and offer hope to a dark world.
ONE is so apt to think that what works smoothest works to the highest ends, having no patience for the results of friction.
TO live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; ….this is to be my symphony.
WE are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
DO not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
WHETHER a life is noble or ignoble depends not on the calling which is adopted, but on the spirit in which it is followed.
DO not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
Carry no bad habits, no corrupting associations, no enmities and strifes into this New Year. Leave these behind, and let the Dead Past bury its Dead; leave them behind, and thank God that you are able to leave them.
We may claim God’s good will in our hearts as ours, if we will lay aside the doing of our own wrong will.
