Thoreau.
JANUARY 29
"They that use to employ their Minds too much upon Trifles, commonly make themselves incapable of any Thing that is Serious or Great."
La Rochefoucauld.
"Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit from thy own thoughts, and then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind to the Lord, from whom cometh life; whereby thou mayest receive the strength and power to allay all storms and tempests. That is it which works up into patience, innocency, soberness, into stillness, staidness, quietness up to God, with His power. Therefore mind; that is the word of the Lord God unto thee, that thou mayest feel the authority of God, and thy faith in that, to work down that which troubles thee; for that is it which keeps peace, and brings up the witness in thee, which hath been transgressed, to feel after God with His power and life, who is a God of order and peace."
George Fox.
"It is not sin so much as triviality which hides God."
The Service of God, Canon Barnett.