Being and Doing – 11 June – Books

IT IS chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds;  and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all.   In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.  God be thanked for books.  They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.   Books are the true levellers.   They give to all who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

CHANNING

BE AS careful of the books you read as of the company you keep:  for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.

PAXTON HOOD

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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.