She is to exercise herself in imagining what would be the effects upon her mind and conduct, if she were daily brought into the presence of the suffering which is not the less real because shut from her sight.
It is of no moment, as a matter of pride or perfectness in herself, whether she knows many languages or one; but it is of the utmost, that she should be able to show kindness to a stranger, and to understand the sweetness of a stranger’s tongue.
THE dangers which threaten us will never be averted until there is no single good man or woman in any sphere of life who does not realize the individual’s responsibility for the general condition…
SKILL to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
get into the way of feeling for other people’s troubles, and doing what you can to help them away, and that will keep your heart from stagnating
BE AS careful of the books you read as of the company you keep: for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Christians are called to be ready to give ‘account for the hope that is within us’ but how do we do that with ‘gentleness and respect’ and only ‘when asked’? Too easily we proclaim a Gospel of condemnation rather than a Gospel of love
READ not to contradict nor confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
CULTURE, for its own sake, is the worst form of self-idolatry.
The sin of mental carelessness or wilfulness must take its place among the sins against which men struggle, and for which they repent.
