Precept and Practice – JUNE 29 – Restlessness

We complain, we fret, we hurry, we strive to make a figure in the world, and chafe against our limits.   Let us live firmly, quietly, trustfully, without the desire to push make haste, yet with the constant desire to do all with our might whatever our hand findeth to do, not taking too much thought for the morrow and our life will be victory at last.

Reverend A. Stepford Brooke

There is so little rest!   There is such an unreasoning passion for activity!   And so we skim the surface of things.   We know no more of the real depth of our lives than a child who crosses a frozen lake knows how deep it is;  we never look down into their depths and see the power of help and culture which they might contain.   But before our life can get depth into it, we must get God into it.   A life with no intention of God in it must be shallow.

Bishop Phillips Brooks

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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