Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness You feel, as I do, that the real tie lies in the feelings and expectations we have raised in other minds. Else all pledges might be broken, when there was no outward penalty. There would be no such thing as faithfulness. George Eliot Friend, if earthly violence or ill, Suspicion,… Continue reading Precept and Practice – AUGUST 3 – Faithfulness
Sincerity seems our only security against losing those who love us, the only cup in which those who are worth keeping will care to pledge us when youth is past.
The aim of true friendship anywhere is not to make life easy for one’s friend, but to make something of the friend.
It isn’t your mind that is needed here, or what you know; it is your heart and what you feel.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
Friendship is the forest to which we flee from the city of toil.
Tyranny is always weakness.
The parable of the Rich Fool, and in fact the whole of Luke Chapter 12, is not about money, nor about bread, nor even about barns. It is about being, ‘rich towards God’ and so proving the faithfulness and loving kindness of God by living generous lives of active service. And being ever-ready to do so….
Love as many persons and as many creatures as you possibly can. Love is the only power by which you can make yourself rich in a moral world.
It is the hardships and troubles and sorrows of life that draw us nearest to one another, offer a field for our sympathy, cement and sanctify our friendships, melt our hearts into kindly feeling for our neighbours,
Suffolk Vicar 