The Little Things
Luke 14:25-35
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by Joseph Fort Newton

It is folly to think that because I am only one and can do very little, and that what I do counts for little, I need not do anything. As if a soldier should say that, since he is only one man, he might as well knock off and go to the movies. It would mean that the battle would be lost. All of us are ready to do some big spectacular thing to go into the spotlight. But it is the tireless doing of obscure, unknown things, the endless hidden fidelities and goodnesses, that really count. That things are as well with us as they are is due to quiet, anonymous loyalties.

The Minister's Manuel, HarperSanFrancisco, p. 169., by Joseph Fort Newton