Being and Doing – 13 June – Education

Note: The language of some posts about women are very much of their age and may be seen as victim blaming and mansplaining – even when written by women.  Please read them with care.

WOMEN were designed by their nature, elegance, and softness to endear domestic life to man, to make virtue lovely to children, to spread around them order and grace, and to give to society its highest polish.   No attainments can be above beings whose end and aim it is to accomplish purposes at once so elegant and so salutary; every means should be used to invigorate by principle and culture such native excellence and grace.

FÉNÉLON

SKILL to do comes of doing;  knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands;  and there is no knowledge that is not power.

EMERSON

LIGHT of any kind invariably throws light upon duty, and if we know anything we are sure to have thereby a clearer notion of right from wrong.   The mere awakening of the understanding must awaken the conscience in some degree.   You cannot gain more intellectual power without also gaining moral light.   Just as the coming of the daylight shows you the beauty of nature at the same moment that it shows you the position surrounding, so, too, even the merest science must reveal in some slight degree the beauty or the will of God.

Bishop TEMPLE

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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.