Being and Doing – 28 August – True Guidance
WHAT is wanted is not to suggest a course of action, but a habit of thought,
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.
FIND fault, if you must find fault, in private if possible; and some time after the offence rather than at the time.
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.
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.’
The man most man with tend’rest human hands
Works best for man – as God in Nazareth
The gift the Canaanite Woman brings is reminding us we have nothing to give that we have not received so we have no cause to deny help to anyone.