Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 17 – The Use of Faith

What is it that faith does with these lives of ours?   It just takes them up out of our weak, trembling, uncertain control, and puts them into the hands of God.   It makes them a part of His great plan;  it binds them fast to His pure and loving will, and fills them with His life.

(Henry van Dyke)

Let us never lose the vision of our possibilities, as with self-denial and prayerfulness we help to realise the plans of God.

(J. R. Mott)

The use of faith is to connect the soul with God, and the use of being connected with God is to become like God.

(Professor Henry Drummond)

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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