Precept and Practice – AUGUST 19 – Thoughts of Peace
He determined to add nothing, not so much as a passing sigh even, to the great total of men’s unhappiness, in his way through the world….
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 18 – Think Well
Faith’s meanest deed more favour bears,
Where hearts and wills are weighed,
Than brightest transports, choicest prayers,
Which bloom their hour and fade.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 17 – The Power of Thought
There is a sense in which we must pay for all we give. But when our gift is made, and has its work, then the joy of the freshly quickened life flows back upon us, and we are allowed to reap the fruit of the sacrifice.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 16 – The Law of Attraction
By indulging in healthy thoughts you attract to yourself everything necessary to your well-being happiness, health, strength, and friends.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 15 – Mind is a Magnet
We receive and give unconsciously, but we attract to ourselves only that which in some sense belongs to us. The magnet may pass through many substances, but it gathers and holds only the metal for which it has a mysterious affinity.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 14 – Love
A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
And what we mean we say,
and what we would we know!
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 13 – Many Waters cannot quench Love
But the tender, the humble, the selfless…. they remain faithful to us. They are not the slaves of their emotions, whether of sympathy or contempt, and the admiration may have died out of their love for us, but it has left a great Christ-like compassion.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 12 – Love – An Efflux
It is good to be in love, but to love is better.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 11 – Love An Efflux
Love is an efflux. It is the outpouring of our very being into the being which is dear to us. Yet we are not left impoverished, but enriched beyond the dreams of spiritual avarice.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 10 – Love – God’s Sacrament
We must always be giving each other bread, or money, or jewels, or books, or counsel; and then we think we have accomplished something. But love is the real gift, no other can take its place; but it can take the place of all the rest.
Suffolk Vicar 