Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 6 – Religion and Humility

The tendency of the religious of all times has been to care more for religion than for humanity;  Christ cared more for humanity than for religion – rather his care for humanity was the chief expression of this religion.   He was not indifferent to observances, but the practices of the people bulked in His thoughts before the practices of the Church…..

Be sure that wherever the religion of Christ appears small or forbidding, or narrow or inhuman, you are dealing not with the whole – which is a matchless moral symmetry – not even with an arch or a column – for every detail is perfect – but with some cold stone removed from its place, and suggesting nothing of the glorious structure from which it came.

(Professor Henry Drummond)

(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

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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