Website owner: James Miller
Honesty is the wisest policy. Dishonesty always catches up
with you in the end. Courtesy and politeness in dealing with
others is just smart policy. Rudeness and discourtesy will
bring you no good. Modesty and humility is just smart policy
in this game of life. Immodesty and arrogance will do you only
harm. Concern and consideration for others is smart. Chastity
is smart. Integrity is smart. So is fairness and justness.
Life is a game. There are strategies that tend to be effective
and potent for winning and there are other strategies that tend
to work against you and cause you to lose. The virtues are not
only right before God, they also just happen to represent the
best ways of living life. They represent the best tactics for
dealing with people and handling life.
We are creatures of habit. We develop habits in the way we
respond to people and situations. We react to people
automatically, without thought, according to habits of honesty
or dishonesty, courtesy or discourtesy, modesty or arrogance,
etc. that we have formed.
It is good to examine ourselves, examine our mental habits, and
note which of our habits are good and which are bad. It is
good to reflect upon the types of habits that may do us damage.
And after reflecting upon the topic of habits and policies for
living out life the next act is to renounce and destroy bad
habits and install good ones.
Dec 1989
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