Being and Doing – 18 May – Trifles
If we do not endeavour to do that which is right in every particular circumstance, though trifling, we shall be in great danger of letting the same negligence take place in matters more essential.
If we do not endeavour to do that which is right in every particular circumstance, though trifling, we shall be in great danger of letting the same negligence take place in matters more essential.
…a virtue that is very small in appearance may be practised with great love to God, while one that is more shining may go along with very little love
EXACTNESS in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.
TRUE greatness consists in being great in little things.
Failure and death are no annihilation, Our tears exhaled will make some future rain.
GOOD manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse.
All people, even those we do not agree with, are beloved by God and so we would should not hesitate when asked to go and bring people from the highways and byways to share God’s feast with us.
IN character, in manners, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
WHAT struck me then, and often afterwards, was the way in which he took apparently a special interest in whatever he was at the time attending to…
THE readiness which he showed to acknowledge a fault when once convinced of it…