Being and Doing – 8 August – Work – our Calling

In all this there was no excitement, no predilection for one class of work above another;  no enthusiasm for any one-sided object;  but an humble, profound, and most religious conscientiousness that work is the appointed calling of man on earth, the end for which his various faculties were given, the element in which his nature is ordained to develop itself, and in which his progressive advance towards Heaven is to lie…..

He felt every moment that he was doing or was not doing God’s work.   He threw into every act, every labour, the consciousness of the divine mission given to all Christians by the Master.

From Life of Dr. Arnold

IN HIM the sight of evil, and the endeavour to remove it, were hardly ever disjoined.

From Life of Dr. Arnold

FOR a brave man to know that an evil is, is simply to know that it has to be vanquished.

FAIRBAIRN

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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.