Being and Doing – 27 July – Power to Serve

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving:  as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers.

Give what you have: to someone it may be better than you dare to think.

LONGFELLOW

Do not despond because your means of doing good appear trifling or insignificant;  for though one soweth and another reapeth, yet it is God that giveth the increase; and who can tell whether He will not cause that which is sown to bear fruit an hundred fold?

JEAN INGELOW

THERE must be a perpetual crusade carried on against small evils – very wearing sometimes.   It is necessary to believe that in thus setting in order certain spots on God’s earth, still more in presenting to a few of His children a somewhat higher standard of right, we are doing His work, and that He will not permit us to lose sight of His large laws, but will rather make them evident to us through small details.

OCTAVIA HILL

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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.