Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 2 – The Doors of Light

The mystery of destiny makes me shudder, although I am conscious of a passionate faith in the justice, greater than that of men, which comprehendeth all things.   In that faith, then, let us live.

Let us care for the weak-minded and insane, show compassion to the wretched, and hold sacred the suffering of humanity.   In exchange for the tender pity we cannot but feel for them, they return us this consoling assurance:  ‘In the very worst of men there still remains something that does honour to humanity.’

Le Roux

My son, the world is dark with griefs and graves, 

So dark that men cry out against the Heavens.

Who knows but that the darkness is in man?

The doors of night may be the gates of Light.

Browning

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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