Being and Doing – 25 August – Leave Results to God

REMEMBER, in speaking to anyone you wish to help, that the more earnest and unconscious of self you are, the better you will help them.   Probably the words you

think most telling will affect them least, while those you think nothing of, God will use for their good.   Leave all results with God.   You are not always digging up the seeds in your garden to see how they are growing.  Trust all to God, and He will bless your work…

Remember, God always works, very slowly and very surely;  the bud is formed slowly, opens slowly.   We must work as God works, not with the great strides self-love would like to work with.

H. MONSELL

A MAN is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

EMERSON

ALL we do which is good or permanent is done in us or through us, consciously or unconsciously, by a divine Spirit, with Whom, if we work cheerfully and obediently, the work thrives, if proudly and resistingly, it is marred.

F. D. MAURICE

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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.