Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 3 – Procrastination
By-and-by leads to the road of Never.
Every man has time enough to do his whole duty. When he leaves a duty undone, or discharges it in the consciousness that it is not as well done as it should be, his lack of time is never the real reason for his failure or his shortcoming. For duty is God’s call, and God never asks a man to do what he has not time to do well. Laziness, or lack of concentration, or procrastination, or any one of a dozen faults, will cause a man to fail, wholly or partly, in duty doing, when he takes refuge behind the old plea that he did not have time enough.
Work is a stimulus to work!
and loafing is a stimulus to laziness!
W. M. Hunt
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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
Suffolk Vicar 