Being and Doing – 24 December – Rising out of Failure
IT IS a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failure.
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Being and Doing – 23 December – Small Things
Nor deem the irrevocable Past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain.
Being and Doing – 22 December – Stepping-Stones
FAILURE after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Being and Doing – 21 December – Stepping-Stones
Every temptation that we meet in the path of duty is another chance of filling our souls with the power of heaven.
Being and Doing – 20 December – Learning from Failure
you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to get a future out of it.
Being and Doing – 19 December – Noble Time
He Fails never.
If He cannot work by us
He will work over us.
Being and Doing – 18 December – Efforts and Successes
EFFORTS are always successes. It is a greater thing to try without succeeding, than to succeed without trying.
Being and Doing – 17 December – Progress
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
Being and Doing – 16 December – Invisible Progress
GREAT works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Being and Doing – 15 December – Growth
The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine. So does the heavenly principle within.
Suffolk Vicar 