Being and Doing – 3 November – Doubts

HOWEVER perplexed you may at any hour become about some question of truth, one refuge and resource is always at hand:  you can do something for someone besides yourself.   When your own burden is heaviest, you can always lighten a little some other burden.   At the times when you cannot see God, there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to show God;  for it is the love and kindness of human hearts through which the divine reality comes home to men, whether they name it or not.   Let this thought, then, stay with you:  there may be times when you cannot find help, but there is no time when you cannot give help.

GEORGE S. MERRIAM

WHO has not sometimes seemed to see it all as clear as daylight, that not by the sharpening of the intellect to supernatural acuteness, but by the submission of the nature to its true authority, man was at last to conquer truth;  that not by agonising struggles over the contradictory evidence, but by the harmony with Him in whom the answers to all our doubts are folded, a harmony with Him brought by obedience to Him, our doubts must be enlightened?

PHILLIPS BROOKS

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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.