Precept & Practice – MAY 7 – Dullness
Between the great things that we cannot do, and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Between the great things that we cannot do, and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
…many people had no criterion of values; they filled their lives with petty engagements, and smilingly lamented that they had no time to think or read.
Those men and women who see no visions and have not perception of that which is invisible, but keep their eyes steadfastly fixed on things too small to be considered at all, magnify trifles till their spiritual microscope transforms a midge into a monster, and a drop of rain into a regular witch’s cauldron.
My beloved brethren, if we saw ourselves as God sees us, we should be willing to be anywhere, to be silent when others speak, to be passed by in the world’s crowd, and thrust aside to make way for others.
…..Be more under His influence than under any other influence. Ten minutes spent in His society every day, ay, two minutes if it be face to face, and heart to heart, will make the whole day different.
There are a great many people in the world whose first and last thought in life is of what is due to them…..
Within, in the secret soul, carefully hidden from men – what do you keep which weigh down your activity for God, which checks your feet when you wish to help mankind as Jesus helped them? Small and petty jealousies which gnaw away your high endeavour, which eat the heart out of your ideals and make mean your imagination; dog-faced memories of injuries done to you… Fling them off the shoulders of your life; fling them off your heart.
Believing is not about seeing things…
Believing is about us, you and I, kneeling in front of the risen wounded Christ. It is about being brave enough to know that the next words we will say, and the words by which we will lead our lives, are these and these alone. ‘My Lord and my God!’
…It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life… the conduct of every human being affects, more or less, the happiness of others,
here are others who lay the foundations of family life so narrow, straight, and strict, that there is room in them only for themselves and people exactly like themselves; and hence comes much misery.