Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 6 – Speech confirms Everything
If thou hast heard a word, let it die with thee, and be bold, it will not burst thee.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 5 – Slander
Love is the only remedy for slander: no set of rules or restrictions can stop it; we may denounce, but we shall denounce in vain. The radical cure of it is Charity…
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 4 – Slander
“Adder’s poison is under their lips.”
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 3 – Gossip
If you your lips would guard from slips,
Five things observe with care
Of whom you speak,
to whom you speak,
And how,
and when,
and where.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 2 – A Mind of Narrow Compass
When everybody is occupied, we only speak when we have something to say; but when we are doing nothing, we are compelled to be always talking; and of all torments, that is the most annoying and the most dangerous.
Precept and Practice – SEPTEMBER 1 – Talkativeness
…And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having anything to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 31 – Carelessness of Speech
Speed in utterance leads to carelessness, and upon the heels of careless utterance tread the toes of careless thought, and when thought is careless its power is gone.
Humble Nobility – A Sermon
Mary of Bethany on the other hand, though of a poor background, living at home with her brother and sister, maligned by those around her, rejected by others because she was not married and criticised by her sister because she wanted to spend time with Jesus, is the one who in our story today shows by her generosity true nobility. A humble nobility to which all of us wealthy or hard-pressed, Well-educated or not able to complete schooling may aspire.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 30 – Words
A man or woman with a blurred sense of accuracy, a habit of exaggerating, or of letting prejudice get mixed with judgment, is as much hindered in the service of others, in the advancement of the common welfare, as an artist who has lost the sense of what pure colour means.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 29 – Arguments
No great man ever minds stooping.
Suffolk Vicar 