Precept and Practice – JULY 31 – The Language of Friends
It isn’t your mind that is needed here, or what you know; it is your heart and what you feel.
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,
Windrush Celebration speech 2025 – Hamil Clarke It is a pleasure for me to be here and to speak about why it is important to recognise and celebrate what was started by those pioneers who came from the Caribbean. Before I go any further, I must congratulate the Suffolk Windrush Celebration Committee for organising today’s launch… Continue reading The Empire Windrush and Ipswich – 2025
Human beings are unceasingly exerting unconscious influence upon one another. Insensibly to themselves, they are moulding one another’s character, conduct and destiny.
You drop a pebble into a still pool, and you see it form a circle, which gradually extends till it fades from your vision, but from your vision only. It still goes on widening, though you no longer see it.