Being and Doing – 28 October – Love

WHO knows if love and its beatitude, clear manifestation as it is of the universal harmony of things, is not the best demonstration of a fatherly and understanding God, just as it is the shortest road by which to reach Him?   Love is a faith, and one faith leads to another.   And this faith is happiness, light, and force.   Only by it does a man enter into the series of the living, the awakened, the happy, the redeemed, of those true men who know the value of existence and who labour for the glory of God and of the Truth.   Till then we are but babblers and chatterers, spendthrifts of our time, our faculties and our gifts, without aim, without real joy, – weak, infirm, and useless beings, of no account in the scheme of things.

From Amiel’s Journal.

WHAT thing thou lovest most, thou mak’st its nature thine; Earthly, if that be earth, if that be God, divine.

R. C. TRENCH

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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.