Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons V. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons V. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons IV. Never buy what you do not want ... because it is cheap it will be dear to you.
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons IX. Take things always by their smooth handle.
I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.
Servants should not only show a servile disposition, but it is quite as imperative that they should show a trained conformity to the canons of conspicuous subservience.
Small debts are like small gun shot they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons X. When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, a hundred.
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons III. Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons VII. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
Thomas Jeffersons Decalogue of Canons II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
I am not going to engage in an argument about canons etc. It is now a part of church process - and I hope that process recognizes it for what will serve no useful purpose, and has no real basis, and makes recommendation to the PB that it be dropped. We have had great restraint in not filing presentments over canonical violations since my case was dismissed. The ECW and others did not file against those who were in violation of canons. At the GC 1997 in Philadelphia, behind the scenes there was an attempt to pass something that exempted the Bishops of the Dioceses that did not ordain women (attempt made by them) and it did not work. I note particularly that charges against me and against Drew Smith came out of the same right wing matrix that was seeking such exemption for their own point of view. This is really a messy situation and I believe it will get messier now.
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
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