Being and Doing – 1 September – Our Father’s Business
WE are too fond of our own will. We want to be doing what we fancy mighty things; but the great point is, to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit.
WE are too fond of our own will. We want to be doing what we fancy mighty things; but the great point is, to do small things, when called to them, in a right spirit.
All worldly joys go less
To the one joy of doing kindnesses.
HE IS the best teacher of others who is best taught himself:
‘It is difficult enough to keep the Ten Commandments,’ he would say, ‘without making an eleventh in every direction.’
WHAT is wanted is not to suggest a course of action, but a habit of thought,
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.
We must work as God works, not with the great strides self-love would like to work with.
THE rewards of duty are not rest from labour, but greater tasks.
THERE are, in this loud stunning tide
Of human care and crime,
With whom the melodies abide
Of th’ everlasting clime:
QUIET patient work often brings startling results.