Precept & Practice – APRIL 1 – Misunderstandings

Misunderstandings and neglect cause more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.

The Reverend F. W. Robertson

If you can meet your enemy half-way, it is much better than to fight to the bitter end, even supposing you are right.

Justice Bucknill

Therefore, come what may, hold fast to love.   Though men should rend your heart, let them not embitter or harden it.   We win by tenderness;  we conquer by forgiveness.   Oh! strive to enter into something of that large celestial charity which is meek, enduring, unretaliating, and which even the overbearing world cannot withstand for ever.

The Reverend F. W. Robertson

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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