Precept and Practice – OCTOBER 10 – A Rebuking Vision
Of all the sad things in this world there is nothing so sad as that – to have seen the good and to have let it go.
Of all the sad things in this world there is nothing so sad as that – to have seen the good and to have let it go.
Truly has it been said that men only enjoy a feast by forgetting the starving.
They saw in their fellows not the actual but the ideal man. They saw in the meanest and guiltiest wretch that lived possibilities of the divinest graces that human character can illustrate.
A bruised reed thou shalt not break.
God’s heart goes forth to meet His erring children. The Good Shepherd goes forth to seek His wandering sheep.
Hope is like the sun, which as we journey towards it casts the shadows of our burden behind us.
As nature with her old mosses and her new spring foliage hides the ruins which man has made, and gives to the fallen tower and broken cloister a beauty scarcely less than that which belonged to them in their prime so human love may be at work too,
‘Study to be quiet and mind your own business,’
Let us care for the weak-minded and insane, show compassion to the wretched, and hold sacred the suffering of humanity.
Christ risen from the dead, raises all this common work belonging to the order of nature, up to the level of the joy of Grace.