Precept and Practice – JULY 6 – Influence
The infirmities, the sorrows, the offences of others touch me by the connection of the one life. I cannot sin alone: I cannot, let me thank God, strive alone.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept and Practice – JULY 5 – Unconscious Influence
Human beings are unceasingly exerting unconscious influence upon one another. Insensibly to themselves, they are moulding one another’s character, conduct and destiny.
Precept and Practice – JULY 4 – Personal Influence
You drop a pebble into a still pool, and you see it form a circle, which gradually extends till it fades from your vision, but from your vision only. It still goes on widening, though you no longer see it.
Precept and Practice – JULY 3 – Influence
No act or thought of ours stands by itself. It is always related to something else.
Precept and Practice – JULY 2 – Atmosphere
None of us can live to himself. For evil or good, for condemnation or blessing, we must exercise a necessary influence over others.
Precept and Practice – JULY 1 – Silence
Bees will not work except in darkness, thought will not work except in silence, neither will virtue work except in secrecy
Precept and Practice – JUNE 30 – Silence
It is of quite unsuspected value to take, even for a minute or two, a complete rest, not trying to pray or think, not even to wander in reverie, but remaining quite passive and quiet in the presence of God.
Hill Climbing for Beginners – A Sermon
The road ahead is rough not smooth.
But that is not what we are promised. There lie many trials, tribulations and fears ahead of us.
As Julian of Norwich recorded the words of Jesus in her Shewings, ‘He said not “Thou shalt not be tempested, thou shalt not be travailed, thou shalt not be dis-eased”; but he said, “Thou shalt not be overcome.”’
Precept and Practice – JUNE 29 – Restlessness
But before our life can get depth into it, we must get God into it. A life with no intention of God in it must be shallow.
Precept and Practice – JUNE 28 – Quiet Resting-places
Our Divine Lord’s ‘Peace be still’ has been uttered over all the billows that threaten to toss the bark. It has inward rest whatever be the outward commotion.
Environment is a small matter to him who contemplates the Almighty.
Suffolk Vicar 