Being and Doing – 24 December – Rising out of Failure

IT IS precisely the proudest and most obstinate men who are the most liable to shift their position and contradict themselves;  everything is easier to them than to face the simple fact that they have been thoroughly defeated, and must begin life anew.

GEORGE ELIOT

IT IS a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success;  they much oftener succeed through failure.   By far the best experience of men is made up of their remembered failures in dealing with others in the affairs of life.   Such failures in sensible men incite to better self-management, and greater tact and self-control, as a means of avoiding them in the future.

SMILES

OUR guides, we pretend, must be sinless;  as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.

GEORGE ELIOT

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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.