Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 30 – Religion – A Temper

God is not far from each one of those who seek God, if haply they may feel after Him.   Let theologians pile up volume upon volume of what they call theology, religion is a very simple matter, and that which is so simple and yet so all-important to us, the living kernel of religion, can be found, I believe, in almost every creed, however much the husk may vary.   And think what that means! It means that above and beneath and behind all religions there is one eternal, one universal religion, a religion to which every man belongs, or may belong.

Professor Max Müller

Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper;  or rather it is a temper leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith;  its action, works;  its temper, holiness;  its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.

Jonathan Edwards

The vision of God as He is, to see the King in His beauty, is vouchsafed not to science, nor to talent, but only to purity and love.

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