Being and Doing – 4 December – Temper
IF YOU wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit,
IF YOU wish not to be of an angry temper, do not feed the habit,
The sins of the temper produce the worst results at once in our neighbour and in ourselves.
Do not look within to see whether your feelings are right; but look without to see what you are doing for others;
WE are wrong always when we think too much of what we think or are.
TO all true modesty the necessary business is not in-look, but out-look, and especially up-look…
THE Pharisees wanted not to serve God and man, but to gratify the petty pride of having done exactly what they had to do….
Disordered order is the most active cause of disorder. Over-restless activity is the parent of a despairing in-activity in others.
Beware of a fidgetty, fussy kind of religion.
Love without a sense of duty is a mere delusion from which we cannot too soon set ourselves free.
He prayeth well who loveth well,
Both man, and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.