Being and Doing – 22 July – Worth of Souls
Despise no soul, however debased, grimed, or soiled. These souls are God’s…. For all souls Jesus died… At least, O Christians, pray for them. Give God what God can justly claim. ‘All souls are mine.’
KNOX LITTLE
WHO heeds not how the lower gusts are working,
Knowing that one sure wind blows on above,
And sees beneath the foulest faces lurking
One God-built shrine of reverence and love.
Who feels that God and Heaven’s great deep are nearer
Him to whose heart his fellow-man is nigh.
Who does not hold his soul’s own freedom dearer
Than that of all his brethren, low or high.
Who to the right can feel himself the truer
For being gently patient with the wrong,
Who sees a brother in the evil-doer,
And finds in Love the heart’s blood of his song.
LOWELL
MANY who talk loudly of progress and the perfectibility of the human race do not see the beauty and worth of every human soul, even in the midst of its utmost ignorance or bondage to sin.
From Catherine of Siena
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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 