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September 28 - October 27, 2015
The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust.
For I had learnt to carry out the orders of elders, not to scan their actions.
God ultimately saves him whose motive is pure.
a man of truth must also be a man of care.
man takes in vice far more readily than virtue.
he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend.
wife is not the husband’s bond slave, but his companion and his help-mate, and an equal partner in all his joy and sorrows—as free as the husband to choose her own path.
A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold;
account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.
who dare harm whom God protects?
Proneness to exaggerate, to suppress or modify the truth, wittingly or unwittingly, is a natural weakness of man and silence is necessary in order to surmount it.
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
If one Ponders on objects of the sense, there springs Attraction; from attraction grows desire, Desire flames to fierce passion, passion breeds Recklessness; then the memory—all betrayed— Lets noble purpose go, and saps the mind, Till purpose, mind, and man are all undone.
whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke too,”
(use your property in such a way as not to damage that of others)
‘I shall think myself blessed only when I see Him in every one of my daily acts;
it went against the grain with me to do a thing in secret that I would not do in public.
Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.
service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it.
Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
‘Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good.
we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
no matter what amount of work one has, one should always find some time for exercise, just as one does for one’s meals. It is my humble opinion that, far from taking away from one’s capacity for work, it adds to it.
nothing once begun should be abandoned unless it is proved to be morally wrong.
man makes his plans to be often upset by God, but at the same time where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, no matter how a man’s plans are frustrated, the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.
True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.
in making his boys valiant, and a stranger to self-restraint could never teach his pupils the value of self-restraint.
The grinding poverty and starvation with which our country is afflicted is such that it drives more and more men every year into the ranks of the beggars, whose desperate struggle for bread renders them insensible to all feelings of decency and self-respect. And our philanthropists, instead of providing work for them and insisting on their working for bread, give them alms.
