Precept & Practice – APRIL 28 – Answering Letters
The only letters that can wait are those which provoke a hot answer.
Category: Prayer
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 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….
Suffolk Vicar 