Christ is our Example:  Christ is not our Model.   You might copy the life of Christ:  make Him a model in every act:  and yet you might be not one whit more of a Christian than before. 

Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna Day 0 – Shrove Tuesday To Read:  From the Introduction by Vernon Sproxton ….some readers may remain incredulous. They will ask, ‘Is it true?’  Now I happen to believe that it is true in the way they are asking the question.  But then I know Fynn.  I have seen the documents… Continue reading Finding our Middle – 40 Days with Anna – Shrove Tuesday

We are not damned for doing wrong, but for not doing right;  Christ would never hear of negative morality;  ‘thou shall’ was ever his word, with which he superseded thou shall not.

The really devout man has a horror of evil, but he has a still greater love of that which is good;  he is more set on doing what is right than avoiding what is wrong. 

Thou shalt not rise by grieving over the irremediable past, but by remedying the present.

There’s a grace of wise forgetfulness,
The while we forward reach and onward press,
Let the dead past be buried.

Faith ought ever to be a sanguine, cheerful thing;  and perhaps in practical life we could not give a better account of faith than by saying, that it is, amidst much failure, having the heart to try again. 

Be penitent, and prayerful, but discourage looking back;  we cannot bring the past again;  reject it, and forget it.

Have patience with yourself is a direction often recurring in his writings, and a most important one it is, – because patience with ourselves is essential if we would have patience with others.