"To try to fix my thoughts in prayer without distraction.
"To watch over a growing habit of uncharitable judgment."
F. W. Robertson's Life.
OCTOBER 15
"An immense quantity of modern confession of sin, even when honest, is merely a sickly egotism which will rather gloat over its own evil than lose the centralisation of its interest in itself."
Ethics of the Dust, John Ruskin.
"The fit of low spirits which comes to us when we find ourselves overtaken in a fault, though we flatter ourselves to reckon it a certain sign of penitence, and a set-off to the sin itself which God will surely take into account, is often nothing more than vexation and annoyance with ourselves, that, after all our good resolutions and attempts at reformation, we have broken down again."
The Ideal Life, Henry Drummond.
"And be you sure that sorrow without resolute effort at amendment is one of the most contemptible of all human frailties; deserving to be despised by men, and certain to be rejected by God."