Precept & Practice – APRIL 19 – Self-conceit
The two great banes of humanity are self-conceit and the laziness coming from self-conceit.
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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…..
Precept & Practice – APRIL 13 – A Centre of Deep Repose
our Lord thoroughly furnishes each of His soldiers for his work, and places before each the task he has to do.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 12 – Entertaining
…So people borrowed a little freshness from each other and got really something out of each other’s sphere and story.
Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace
Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. In so far as it is not this, it is not home; so far as the anxieties of the outer life penetrate into it, and the inconsistently… Continue reading Precept & Practice – APRIL 10 – The Place of Peace
Precept & Practice – APRIL 9 – Nicety of Moral View
….Wherever this picture is realised, it is not by microscopic solicitude of spirit, but by comprehension of mind, and enlargement of heart; by that breadth and nicety of moral view which discerns everything in due proportion, and in avoiding an intense elaboration of trifles,
Precept & Practice – APRIL 8 – Amenity
– alas, we have too little in our national character of the quality which this word expresses his inborn, his constant amenity.
Suffolk Vicar 