in a word, that man’s unpitied misery means Satan’s opportunity.

He felt every moment that he was doing or was not doing God’s work.   He threw into every act, every labour, the consciousness of the divine mission given to all Christians by the Master.

O prayer and action!  ye are one;
Who may not strive may yet fulfil

Free men freely work.
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.

THE  only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition.

WE should treat the poor with the same delicacy of thoughtful respect as if they belonged to a higher class.

…we should think ourselves under the strongest engagements to comfort, and relieve, and instruct, and admonish, and bear with one another.

The Master’s foot-prints in our daily ways?
No knotted scourge, nor sacrificial knife,
But the calm beauty of an ordered life
Whose every breathing is unworded praise.

The notion that mere expenditure does good to the poorer classes, or adds to the general wealth, is a fallacy

I AM certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things…