Precept & Practice – APRIL 4 – The Great Healing Power

Love is the great healing power of the universe.

Every real force in existence is friendly. Whenever we send out loving thought in generous profusion every part of our environment echoes back a sweet benediction.   Even seeming enemies, personal and impersonal, are no exception. Love invigorates.

Its electric thrill sends new life through sluggish minds, weak bodies, and paralysed limbs as of old.

And I prayed God that He would make me into a rock which swallowed up the waves of wrong in its great caverns, and never threw them back to swell the commotion of the angry sea whence they came.

Ah! what it would be actually to annihilate wrong in this way ! – to be able to say, it shall not be wrong against me, so utterly do I forgive it!   How much sooner, then, would the wrong-doer repent, and get rid of the wrong from his side also.

G. MacDonald (Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood)

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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