Being and Doing – 6 November – Religious Toleration

I HAVE always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest – I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it.   It is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much.

GEORGE ELIOT

IT SEEMS to me a waste of time which we can ill afford, and a sort of ‘quarrel by the way’ which our Christian vow of enmity against moral evil makes utterly unreasonable, when Christians suspend their great business, and loosen the bond of their union with each other, by venting useless regrets and complaints against one another’s errors, instead of labouring to lessen one another’s sins.

I have one great principle which I never lose sight of:  to insist strongly on the difference between Christian and non-Christian, and to sink into nothing the difference between Christian and Christian.

Dr. ARNOLD

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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.