Precept & Practice – JANUARY 28 – Inhibition (continued)
Inhibition is the bridling of natural impulses to curb their imperiousness and save us from becoming their slaves.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 27 – Inhibition
…..people more often give offence or yield to emotion when they are over-wrought. If they kept in retirement until they had recuperated, they would avoid such undesirable displays…..
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 26 – Perseverance
The ploughshare must be pressed firmly into the ground that is overspread with noxious weeds. Otherwise we till for the weeds and not for the good seed, which will not take root on the surface.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 25 – The Importance of Beginnings
I don’t think it is possible to over-rate the hardness of the first close struggle with any natural passion, but indeed the easiness of later steps is often quite beyond one’s expectations.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 24 – Habitual Virtue
We shall one day forget all about duty, and do everything from the love of the loveliness of it, the satisfaction of the rightness of it.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 23 – Habit
…..our virtues are habits as much as our vices. …..
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 22 – Evil Habits
If you once allow yourself to fall into a habit of evil of whatever kind, the idea that you are helpless, that you are made so, that it is your nature, will very speedily creep in and try to lay hold of your mind.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 21 – Character
Strength of character lies not in demanding special circumstances, but in mastering and using any that may be given.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 20 – Unhurried Work
Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunity for good deeds is renewed for you day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
Precept & Practice – JANUARY 19 – Unhurried Work
…..be called a laggard, make less money, accomplish less work than they, but be what you were meant to be and can be.
