Precept and Practice – JUNE 6 – Cheerfulness
Good temper is like a sunny day; it sheds its brightness upon everything.
Category: poem
Precept and Practice – JUNE 5 – Messengers from God
Every waving field of corn, the sweet-scented hay of the meadow, every leaf on the bough and every bird among the leaves, is a messenger direct from God.
Precept and Practice – JUNE 4 – The Sweetest Things of Life
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.
Precept and Practice – JUNE 3 – Happiness
Let a man be what he will, it is the mind and heart that make a man poor or rich, miserable or happy; for these are always stronger than fortune.
Precept and Practice – JUNE 2 – Disposition
Our heart makes our world for us, and if the heart be without hope and cheer, the world is always dark. We find in life just what we have the capacity to find.
Precept and Practice – JUNE 1 – Gladness
Lord, since all is well with Thee It cannot well be ill with me.
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.
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;
Suffolk Vicar 