Being and Doing – 28 July – Power to Serve

AND remember, in the second place, what would happen if all the little people in the world held up their littleness like a shield before them, as you hold up yours.   Grant that you are as small as you think you are, you are the average size of moral and intellectual humanity.  Let all the Merozes in the land be humble like you, and where shall be the army?   Only when men like you wake up and shake the paralysis of their humility away, shall we begin to see the dawn of that glorious millennium for which we sigh; which will consist not in the transformation of men into angels, nor in the coming forth of a few colossal men to be the patterns and the champions of life, but simply in each man, through the length and breadth of the great world, doing his best.

PHILLIPS BROOKS

DO what lieth in thy power and God will assist thy good will.

THOMAS À KEMPIS

GOD only asks from you what He gives you power to do. 

Bishop WALSHAM HOW

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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.