Being and Doing – 12 July – Awfulness of our Responsibilities
THE Lord’s words made clear beyond doubt that ‘the blessing of power is the blessing of great cares,’ that the sign of authority is the readiness to serve.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Being and Doing – 11 July – Responsibility
His ability for this work is a sacred trust from God, the greatest of all trusts. He must answer for the waste or abuse of it.
Being and Doing – 10 July – Responsibility
WE KNOW not what we do, some cry; but they ought to know…
Being and Doing – 9 July – The Heroic Impulses
LET us only have a religious purpose, grand, inspiring, and devout, and we shall not have to complain of a want of zeal.
Being and Doing – 8 July – Principle and Happiness
TO LOVE God is our Happiness, to trust in Him is our Repose, to surrender ourselves entirely to His will is our Strength.
Being and Doing – 7 July – Self-Sacrifice
But to Jesus self-sacrifice always is a means of freedom.
Being and Doing – 6 July – Consecration
A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God
Being and Doing – 5 July – Meaning of Sacrifice
…sacrifice properly describes not loss to man but devotion to God; not suffering, but dedication;
Being and Doing – 4 July – Self-Sacrifice
IT is this power of perishing to give rise to something beyond and greater than itself, or being worn out in the act of producing something nobler than itself, that constitutes the worth of any created thing
Being and Doing – 3 July – Symmetry of Life
Your joy was freely to impart
Your best, and ask for nought again;
No selfish greed, no lack of power,
Defiled your bounties’ kindly shower.
Suffolk Vicar 