“Business is a kind of material body without which the spiritual life is a kind of ghost. In the perfect life they are essential to each other.”

On the necessary union of practical affairs and spiritual life · Aphorism, A Pocket of Pebbles

• Balance
• Spirituality
• Work

“A Parson’s business is that of a stone-breaker. But there is usually not a stone-breaker in the parish who has such hard work before him.”

Comparing the labour of pastoral ministry to the hardest manual toil · Aphorism, A Pocket of Pebbles

• Duty
• Vocation
• Work

“A large part of life is, or ought to be, spent in making up our imperfections and redeeming old mistakes.”

On the lifelong work of correcting past errors and shortcomings · Aphorism, A Pocket of Pebbles

• Correction
• Imperfection
• Life