A man conscious of God could not be conscious of self or fret to draw notice to his words and acts.

The essence of the whole situation was to have in one’s heart the romance of pilgrimage, to expect experience, both sweet and bitter, to desire the goal rather than the prize;

Precept & Practice – JANUARY 8 – Consecration Whole-hearted consecration was ever to be the path to exceptional service.  The stipulation includes all that we have previously spoken of as required.   There are no gifts that we possess, emotional, intellectual, practical, which are not comprehended by it.   There is no department of life into which the demand does not enter.   The… Continue reading Precept & Practice – JANUARY 8 – Consecration

Is there anything more contemptible than the self-indulgent life of the rich to-day who stand by and see the perishing of the poor?

To live for common ends is to be common—
The highest faith makes still the highest man ;
For we grow like the things our souls believe,
And rise or sink, as we aim, high or low.

in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

Be patient still;  suffer us yet a while longer;  with our broken purposes of good, with our idle endeavours against evil, suffer us a while longer to endure, and (if it may be) help us to do better.

LIFE is sweet, brother…   There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things;  sun, moon and stars, brother, all sweet things;  there’s likewise the wind on the heath.    Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

WE MUST not take the faults of our youth into our old age;  for old age brings with it its own faults.