Being and Doing – 9 August – Ancient and Modern Philanthropy
in a word, that man’s unpitied misery means Satan’s opportunity.
in a word, that man’s unpitied misery means Satan’s opportunity.
He felt every moment that he was doing or was not doing God’s work. He threw into every act, every labour, the consciousness of the divine mission given to all Christians by the Master.
O prayer and action! ye are one;
Who may not strive may yet fulfil
If we hold on to what we have we find we are holding on to emptiness….
But if we let go of our emptiness God works miracles!
God works best and God’s love is shown at its best when God has nothing at all to with which to work.
O power to do! O baffled will!
O prayer and action! ye are one;
Who may not strive may yet fulfil
Free men freely work.
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
THE only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition.
WE should treat the poor with the same delicacy of thoughtful respect as if they belonged to a higher class.
…we should think ourselves under the strongest engagements to comfort, and relieve, and instruct, and admonish, and bear with one another.
IT IS the business of anybody who can, to set right what anybody has set wrong.