“It is wonderful how men change to a changed heart. We ourselves, being ennobled, see noble things, and loving, find out love. Little touches of love, of goodness, of courage in men, which formerly, looking for perfection, we passed over, now attract us like flowers on a dusty highway. We take them as keys to the character, and door after door flies open to us. The man reveals the treasures of his heart. We find aspiration, penitence, tenderness, in those we thought grovelling, hard, and selfish. We trust men, we throw ourselves upon the good in them, and they become better now that they are not suspected of being evil. . . . Driven by our new principle to seek for good and not for eveil, and to find it in all, we take notice of ordinary men whom we have passed over, and it is with an exquisite surprise that we become conscious of the vast amount of daily sacrifice done by common men and women, by those whom we call ‘dull’, by those who have to fight a hard battle like the poor.”
STOPFORD BROOKE
“How many an angel lies enthralled within rough human souls, needing only an Angelo to set him free. The first step in the art is faith in goodness; the second, love of goodness; the third, employment of the heavenly weapons – kindness, and influence, and prayer.”
KNOX LITTLE
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