Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 5 – Refining Influence of Conscientious Work
Have you never met humble men and women who read little, who knew little, yet who had a certain fascination as of fineness lurking about them?
Know them, and you are likely to find them persons who have put so much thought and honesty and conscientious trying into their common work it may be sweeping rooms, or planing boards, or painting walls – have put their ideals so long, so constantly, so lovingly into that common work of theirs, that
finally these qualities have come to permeate not their work only, but see much of their being, that they are fine-fibred within, even if on the outside the rough bark clings
Wm. C. Gannett
It is a fact that the habitual performance of the humblest duties has often developed the highest spirituality of character, with a vivid consciousness of God within and around us.
W. K. Inge
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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 