Being and Doing – 7 June – Harsh Judgments
EARNEST words must needs be spoken
When the warm heart bleeds or burns
With its scorn of wrong, or pity
For the wronged, by turns.
But, by all thy nature’s weakness,
Hidden faults and follies known,
Be thou, in rebuking evil,
Conscious of thine own.
Know’st thou not all germs of evil
In thy heart await their time?
Not thyself, but God’s restraining
Stays their growth of crime.
Could’st thou boast,
O child of weakness,
O’er the sons of wrong and strife,
Were their strong temptations planted
In thy path of life?
WHITTIER
WE ALL have our secret sins; and if we knew our selves we should not judge each other harshly.
GEORGE ELIOT
GENERALLY speaking, the judging of others is the foul stain of social life.
Baron BUNSEN
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These quotes are from ‘Being and Doing’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.
Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1908 for members of the Being and Doing Guild whose object is to do all they can for the relief of suffering and misery.
Most of the writers are 19th Century Christians from Britain and Europe who were committed to living their faith through deeds as well as words – Being AND Doing.
For many years these words have kept me company and encouraged me on the journey of faith. I hope they will encourage others also.
Suffolk Vicar 