Being and Doing – 3 December – Temper
The sins of the temper produce the worst results at once in our neighbour and in ourselves.
Being and Doing – 2 December – Self-examination
Do not look within to see whether your feelings are right; but look without to see what you are doing for others;
Being and Doing – 1 December – Self-examination
WE are wrong always when we think too much of what we think or are.
Being and Doing – 30 November – Self-examination
TO all true modesty the necessary business is not in-look, but out-look, and especially up-look…
Being and Doing – 29 November – Bondage to Rules
THE Pharisees wanted not to serve God and man, but to gratify the petty pride of having done exactly what they had to do….
Being and Doing – 28 November – Bondage to Rules
Disordered order is the most active cause of disorder. Over-restless activity is the parent of a despairing in-activity in others.
Being and Doing – 27 November – Rules
Beware of a fidgetty, fussy kind of religion.
Being and Doing – 26 November – Rules
Love without a sense of duty is a mere delusion from which we cannot too soon set ourselves free.
Being and Doing – 25 November – Prayer
He prayeth well who loveth well,
Both man, and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
Being and Doing – 24 November – Prayer
The more time we spend in [God’s] presence, seeking His face and communing with Him in prayer, the more surely will godly graces and tempers spring up within us and bear fruit in our lives.
