God says, live deeply, earnestly in the present, and the spirit of all the ages shall come and reveal itself to you.
—Phillips Brooks.
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good, is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.
—George Macdonald.
“Ask God to give thee skill
For comfort’s art,
That thou may’st consecrated be,
And set apart
Unto a life of sympathy!
For comforters are needed much