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?
Character and Conduct – 23 April – Reconciliation
IT is exceedingly noteworthy that in the rule laid down here by our Lord, the responsibility of seeking reconciliation is laid primarily, not upon the man who has done wrong, but upon the man who has received the wrong.
Character and Conduct – 22 April – Silence a great Peacemaker
IF bitterness has crept into the heart in the friction of the busy day’s unguarded moments, be sure it steals away with the setting sun. Twilight is God’s interval for peace-making.
Character and Conduct – 21 April – Unbalanced Memory
We forgive injuries, we survive even our remorse for great wrongs that we ourselves commit; but I doubt if we ever forgive slights of this nature put upon us, or forget circumstances in which our self-love has been made to suffer.
Character and Conduct – 20 April – Unbalanced Memory
We are apt to forget completely a hundred little kindnesses and courtesies which one has shown us, and to remember a single careless slight or thoughtless word.
Character and Conduct – 19 April – Touchiness
TOUCHINESS, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to the acute point.
Character and Conduct – 18 April – Revenge
HE that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.
Suffolk Vicar 