Precept & Practice – APRIL 26 – Power of Perception
Carlyle pointed out that crabbedness, pride, obstinacy, and affectation are, at bottom, want of strength – weakness.
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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 21 – Explanations
There is always danger of misrepresentation in the attempt to present a view that is not one’s own.
Precept & Practice – The Last Word – APRIL 20
Love of the last word has made more bitterness in families, and spoiled more Christians than it is worth.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 19 – Self-conceit
The two great banes of humanity are self-conceit and the laziness coming from self-conceit.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 18 – Self-will
A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will….
Precept & Practice – APRIL 17 – Love and Remorse
Our rash faults
Make trivial price of serious things we have,
Not knowing them, until we know their grave.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 15 – Repression
It comes far easier to scold our friend, in an angry moment, than to say how much we love, honour, and esteem him in a kindly mood.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 14 – Harmony
Christian simplicity should be our most beautiful adornment…..
Suffolk Vicar 