Precept & Practice – APRIL 30 – Superficial Tumults
Banish the trifling, oh so trifling matter, by things more deserving of attention, and in a couple of months you will wonder why it upset you so.
Author: Andrew The Dotty Rev
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Precept & Practice – APRIL 29 – Trifles
it. It may be very absurd, nay very immoral, to be teased by trifles; but alas while you remain in the dust, reason as you may, it will annoy you; and there is no help for it, but to retire into a higher and grassier region, where the sultry road is visible from afar.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 28 – Answering Letters
The only letters that can wait are those which provoke a hot answer.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 27 – Public Benefactors
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;
Precept & Practice – APRIL 26 – Power of Perception
Carlyle pointed out that crabbedness, pride, obstinacy, and affectation are, at bottom, want of strength – weakness.
Words, Words, Words! – Eliza Doolittle and Doubting Thomas. A Sermon
Believing is not about seeing things…
Believing is about us, you and I, kneeling in front of the risen wounded Christ. It is about being brave enough to know that the next words we will say, and the words by which we will lead our lives, are these and these alone. ‘My Lord and my God!’
Precept & Practice – APRIL 25 – Allowances
Who are we, what is our insight into other men’s hearts, that we should foreclose the time of their growth; that we should call for speed, when God, it may be, is patiently disengaging their minds from difficulties that we have never known;
Precept & Practice – APRIL 24 – Mutual Toleration
Even the most perfect people have many imperfections, and we ourselves have no fewer.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 23 – The Sum of Human Good
…It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life… the conduct of every human being affects, more or less, the happiness of others,
Precept & Practice – APRIL 22 – Intolerance
here are others who lay the foundations of family life so narrow, straight, and strict, that there is room in them only for themselves and people exactly like themselves; and hence comes much misery.
