Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 6 – Never be Hurried
We complain, we fret, we hurry, we strive to make a figure in the world and chafe against our limits. Why should we make so much ado; we have an eternity before us….. Let us live firmly, quietly, trustfully, without the desire to push or make haste, yet with the constant desire to do all with our might whatever our hand findeth to do for the good of our fellow-men not taking too much thought for the morrow and our life will be victory at last.
Reverend Stopford A. Brooke
… Never be hurried, do everything tranquilly and with a restful spirit: do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, not even when all seems going wrong; for what do earthly things matter, as compared with your heart’s peace? Commend all to God, and keep yourself calm and still in His Fatherly Providence.
S. Francis de Sales (Part of a letter addressed to Mme. de Chantal)
To get rid of hurry is a great help towards peace.
A real faith has no anxiety.
S. Ambrose
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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 