From thy hand and thy heart and thy brave cheer,
And God’s grace fructify through thee to all.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth is to open the way to appreciate all beautiful and true and gracious souls, and to recognize spiritual beauty wherever it is seen.
—H. Black.
We must alter for the better always and unceasingly. Nature seems to be at rest only because she is perpetually renewed. The soul enjoys repose on the same terms.
—De Ravignon.
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making: but He does not give the power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
—Ian MacLaren.
Ever laughs the sunlight in our eyes at morning and at noon,