Being and Doing – 31 January – Day by Day
new beginnings are the life of perseverance.
new beginnings are the life of perseverance.
YOU have a disagreeable duty to do at twelve o’clock.
Do not blacken nine and ten and all between with the colour of twelve.
EVERY day ought to be begun as a serious work, standing alone in itself
[He was sent far] from the usual sphere of minister or priest, to find fresh worlds of thoughts and wild tracts of character, in which he found a response to himself, because he gave a response to them.
We are so apt to live two lives.
But Jesus knows but one.
a general harmony should exist between the natural side of your life and the spiritual, leaving neither side undeveloped.
I am far from thinking it is possible to serve God and the world, but living in the world is not serving the world.
the duties of life… are no obstructions to a life of any degree of inward holiness; but that they are even direct means… to promote our sanctification.
In the golden rule of moderation lies undoubtedly the essential condition of all stable human happiness.
We shall never know what it is to live in peace, until we know what it is to live thoroughly in the present.