Being and Doing – 10 June – Reading
READ not to contradict nor confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
READ not to contradict nor confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
CULTURE, for its own sake, is the worst form of self-idolatry.
The sin of mental carelessness or wilfulness must take its place among the sins against which men struggle, and for which they repent.
GENERALLY speaking, the judging of others is the foul stain of social life.
THEN gently scan your brother man,
Still gentlier sister woman;
Though they may gang a kennin’ wrang,
To step aside is human:
OF ALL spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst…
When shall we learn to keep the knowledge always present with us that often kindness is our best uprightness, and our truest justice is mercy?
It’s far too simple a thing to pray the Grace at the end of worship and not contemplate what it means to live a life full of Christlike grace, unconditional Godly love and the wide and welcoming fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
As a general rule, no man can fall into conversation with another without being able to learn something valuable from him. But in order to get at this benefit there must be something of an accommodating spirit on both sides;
…far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.