Being and Doing – 17 July – Personal Responsibility
Failure and death are not annihilation,
Our tears exhaled will make some future rain.
Failure and death are not annihilation,
Our tears exhaled will make some future rain.
You cannot wipe off from your souls, as with a wet cloth, as though it was no concern of yours, the stains left by the sins of others.
The ruin of many a woman lies at the door of the fine lady who hurries her workwoman to finish her dress, or who, to save herself a little trouble, or that she may indulge a momentary expense, refuses to pay her bills.
May I be kept humble and zealous, and may God give me grace to labour in my generation for the good of my brethren, and for His glory!
WEALTH is honourable, and may be used most blessedly when men regard themselves as being what indeed they are stewards of it, and not the owners;
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.
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.
WE KNOW not what we do, some cry; but they ought to know…
LET us only have a religious purpose, grand, inspiring, and devout, and we shall not have to complain of a want of zeal.
TO LOVE God is our Happiness, to trust in Him is our Repose, to surrender ourselves entirely to His will is our Strength.