Ok seminarians, I need a bit of help.
I am looking for a scriptural basis for the following quotes:
"For there is no action so slight, nor so mean, but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled therefore; nor is any purpose so great but that slight actions may help it, and may be so done as to help it much, most especially that chief of all purposes, the pleasing of God."
"We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our thoughts, not be refering to his will on slight occasions. His is not the finite authority or intelligence which cannot be troubled with small things. There is nothing so small that we may not honour God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands."
They are both by John Ruskin, presented in the introduction of The Seven Lamps of Architecture to defend his application of moral/ biblical principles to architecture. I was thinking of Matthew 25:40 "...whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me," but that is not quite right, and I feel I would be taking the verse out of context if I used it.
So any suggestions?
