Being and Doing – 5 November – Essentials of Religion
CHRISTIANITY has abler advocates than in its professed defenders, in those many quiet and humble men and women who, in the light of it and strength of it, lead holy, beautiful, and self-denying lives.
Wherever there is genuine love for good and goodness, no speculative superstructure of opinion can be so extravagant as to forfeit those graces which are promised, not to clearness of intellect, but to purity of heart.
FROUDE
GOOD love, howe’er ill placed,
Is better for man’s soul in the end
Than if he loved ill, what deserves love well.
A Pagan, kissing for a step of Pan
The wild goat’s hoof-print on the loaming down,
Exceeds our modern thinker who turns back
The strata-granite, limestone, coal and clay,
Concluding coldly with, ‘Here’s law, where’s God?’
E. B. BROWNING
IT is only the principles of Truth, Goodness, and Right, which are to last for ever. The forms in which these exhibit themselves will necessarily vary with the age and state of society.
GOULURN
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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.
Suffolk Vicar 