Precept & Practice – JANUARY 8 – Consecration

Whole-hearted consecration was ever to be the path to exceptional service.  The stipulation includes all that we have previously spoken of as required.   There are no gifts that we possess, emotional, intellectual, practical, which are not comprehended by it.   There is no department of life into which the demand does not enter.   The more we consider the teaching of Christ, and the more we interrogate the facts of experience, the more certain we shall become that nothing less has to be reckoned with by all who would attain to the fullest realisation of God’s purpose for their lives.   When we try to understand what has been the secret of unusual success in the men and women who have been conspicuous as the instruments and channels of a strength and a goodness greater than their own, we invariably discover that the explanation is to be found in the fact of their single-minded, whole-hearted devotion.   They have given themselves and consecrated their lives.

The Reverend Arthur W. Robinson, (Cooperation with God.)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW