Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 8 – Holiness

It (Holiness) means, in the first place, perfect disinterestedness, indifference to earthly and human interests.   Again, it implies a mind one with God, over which no shadow of uncleanness or untruth ever passes, which seeks only to know His will, and, knowing it, to carry it out in the world.   To purity and truth it adds peace and a certain dignity derived from independence of all things.   It is heaven upon earth – to live loving all men, disturbed by nothing, fearing nothing.   It is a temper of mind which is unshaken by changes of religious opinion, which is not dependent upon outward observances of religion. 

(Dr. Benjamin Jowett)

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

(F. W. Faber)

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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