‘Sine Proprio’ – A Sermon
To live ‘Sine Proprio’ without possessions is about more than the ‘stuff’ withe which we surround our lives. It is a call to ‘Let Go and Let God’. Only as we do this can life be re-born.
To live ‘Sine Proprio’ without possessions is about more than the ‘stuff’ withe which we surround our lives. It is a call to ‘Let Go and Let God’. Only as we do this can life be re-born.
Each man has some part to play;
The Past and the Future are nothing,
In the face of the stern To-day.
To shape the whole future is not our problem; but only to shape faithfully a small part of it, according to rules already known.
EARNESTNESS of life is the only passport to the satisfaction of life.
TO TAKE up the Cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
WE need as much the cross we bear
As air we breathe, as light we see;
It draws us to Thy side in prayer,
It binds us to our strength in Thee.
THE crosses which we make for ourselves by our over-anxiety as to the future are not heaven-sent crosses.
THUS I learned old pleasures are estranged,
Only that something better may be given –
Until, at last, we find this earth exchanged
For Heaven.
Many times what we fancied was hurtful has been of the greatest service; what we flinched from has made us happier….
What to thee is shadow, to Him is day,
And the end He knoweth,
And not on a blind and aimless way
The spirit goeth.