If you love, you will unconsciously fulfil the whole law…

We are told to visit them that are in prison.   A good thing, but it were better if we could save them going there.   We are told to visit the sick;  it were better still, and we should so better have fulfilled the law, if we could have saved some of them from falling sick.

Perhaps there is nothing which so mars and spoils the religious life as bad temper and selfishness.

The hard path of daily duty is the only path to tread, not because one is thinking of oneself, but because one wishes to forget oneself, and to think only of God, and of those that remain.

The whole of one’s nature becomes sensitive, easily wounded, easily depressed.

IT is dangerous to abandon oneself to the luxury of grief;  it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Say not Good Night, but in some brighter clime
Bid me Good Morning!

For, though from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far, 
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.

MOST persons have died before they expire – died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.