Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 8 – Determination
The race is divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?’
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 7 – To-day
What confuses work, what mars life and makes it feverish, is the postponing of a task which ought to be done Now!
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 6 – Never be Hurried
To get rid of hurry is a great help towards peace.
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 5 – Refining Influence of Conscientious Work
It is a fact that the habitual performance of the humblest duties has often developed the highest spirituality of character, with a vivid consciousness of God within and around us.
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 4 – Duty
Duty is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong, without which all strength is unstable as water.
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 3 – Procrastination
Work is a stimulus to work!
and loafing is a stimulus to laziness!
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 2 – Purpose
Each little grace invites a larger; and his step being upward, his view is wider.
Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 1 – Duty
Our Master, Christ, has given you this thing to do: say not that you are ready to do something else, but not this; say not that this is just what you cannot do; say not that you are but a mere peg in a machine and have no power to move.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 31 – What is Duty?
At the end of life we shall not be asked how much pleasure we had in it, but how much service we gave in it; not how full it was of success, but how full it was of sacrifice; not how happy we were, but how helpful we were;
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 30 – Duty
The deferred difficulty is the doubled difficulty. If we repeat the deferring process, and continue repeating it, the task finally becomes such a bugbear that we hate even to think of it.
Suffolk Vicar 