Being and Doing – 18 December – Efforts and Successes
EFFORTS are always successes. It is a greater thing to try without succeeding, than to succeed without trying.
EFFORTS are always successes. It is a greater thing to try without succeeding, than to succeed without trying.
If Jesus had a choice as to which present He received at His birth would he have chosen Gold, Frankinsence and Myrrh?
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
GREAT works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under sunshine. So does the heavenly principle within.
‘Did I not do the best I then knew how?’
SAY not, the struggle nought availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
DO NOT hope you are to gain the victory in a day.
IT IS the one inspiring element of Christianity that it throws us in boundless hope upon the future, and forbids us to dwell in the poisonous shadows of the past.
God does not require from you to be sinless when you come before Him, but He does require you to be unceasing in your perseverance.