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.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
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.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 28 – Conversation
.….Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out their music.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 27 – Conversation
In learning to know other things and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves and are to ourselves better worth knowing.
Precept and Practice – AUGUST 27 – Conversation
All that we have read and learned….. constitutes at last a spiritual society, of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
Suffolk Vicar 