Precept and Practice – NOVEMBER 16 – Faith – the Instinct of the Spiritual World
What you see you do not believe; it is a misnomer; you see it. What you believe you cannot see;
What you see you do not believe; it is a misnomer; you see it. What you believe you cannot see;
Hatred and darkness comes and will return again and again. We may feel, as did the Pevensie children in Narnia, that it is ‘always winter but never Christmas.’
But there is always a time of darkness before the dawn of Christmas. Christmas is coming, the reign of the Wicked Witch will end and we will find ourselves living with all those who have got home ahead of us who live now the sunlit uplands of Aslan’s own land.
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,
And cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith.
And if men seem to us unreasonable, opposers of that which to us is plainly true, let us remember that we are not here to convince men, but to let our light shine.
…we do not always care to follow out a train of thought until it ends in a blind cul-de-sac, as some of what are called the logical people are fond of doing.
Language is valuable for the things of this life, but for the things of the other world it is an encumbrance almost as much as an assistance.
…And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee, Thee only God!
and Thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.
Going to church will not make you a saint, any more than going to school will make you a scholar.
holy lives Reveal the Christ of whom the letter told,
And the new Gospel verifies the old.
Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.