Being and Doing – 29 August – Training of Children
‘It is difficult enough to keep the Ten Commandments,’ he would say, ‘without making an eleventh in every direction.’
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
Being and Doing – 28 August – True Guidance
WHAT is wanted is not to suggest a course of action, but a habit of thought,
Being and Doing – 27 August – Finding Fault
it is better to withhold a deserved rebuke than to administer it ungraciously, and that judicious silence was far preferable to the truth roughly told.
Being and Doing – 26 August – Finding Fault
FIND fault, if you must find fault, in private if possible; and some time after the offence rather than at the time.
Being and Doing – 25 August – Leave Results to God
We must work as God works, not with the great strides self-love would like to work with.
Being and Doing – 24 August – Rest
THE rewards of duty are not rest from labour, but greater tasks.
Being and Doing – 23 August – Work and Contemplation
THERE are, in this loud stunning tide
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th’ everlasting clime:
Being and Doing – 22 August – Leave Results to God
QUIET patient work often brings startling results.
Being and Doing – 21 August – Leave Results to God
it has often seemed to me that a good rule to adopt would be ‘Love them, and pray for them, and leave them alone as much as possible.’
Being and Doing – 20 August – Quiet Work
The man most man with tend’rest human hands
Works best for man – as God in Nazareth
Suffolk Vicar 