Of grace, O Lord, to Thee!
—A. E. Hamilton.
A man’s own good breeding is the best security against other people’s ill manners.
—Chesterfield.
The best teacher of duties that still lie near to us, is the practice of those we see and have at hand.
—Carlyle.
“The secret of a sweet and Christian life is learning to live by the day. It is the long stretches that tire us.”
To one who is in the rôle of host there can be no more bitter rebuke than to have any guest or chance caller go out from the portals with the feeling that he is sorry he came—that he is depressed rather than up-lifted. For all personal association, whether permanent or transient, whether prearranged or a matter of accidental contact, should leave behind it a lingering charm, a deeper sense of the loveliness of life.
—Lilian Whiting.
One of the natural tendencies of the mortal mind is toward proselyting. The moment we believe something to be true, we begin to try to convert others to our belief. We learn to say, with some degree of realization, “God worketh in me to will and to do of His good pleasure,” but we quite forget that the same God is working equally in our brother “to will and to do.” “I am the door,” says the Christ within every man’s own soul. Now you are trying to have your dear one enter in through your door. He must enter in through his own Christ, his own desire.