February 12

“Living as those who have a charge from Christ will be to us a constant safeguard. Sorrow, instead of embittering our hearts, will open in them deeper and sweeter fountains; success will make them watchful; Failure, humble; nay, the commonest things will be ministers of good; in them there will be a discipline for our tempers; and from their use we shall obtain the power of applying high principles to little things.”

Bishop WILBERFORCE

“It is our chief difficulty about the formation of Christian character, that we do not give enough time to it. We do not make it sufficiently one continual work through our whole life. . . . We never outgrow the need of watchfulness till we come to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.”

“Tito was experiencing that inexorable law of human souls, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determines character.”

GEORGE ELIOT