August 25

“Remember, in speaking to any one you wish to help, that the more earnest and unconscious of self you are, the better you will help them. Probably the words you think most telling will affect them least, while those you think nothing of, God will use for their good. Leave all results with God. You are not always digging up the seeds in your garden to see how they are growing. Trust all to God, and He will bless your work. . . .
“Remember, God always works, very slowly and very surely; the bud is formed slowly, opens slowly. We must work as God works, not with the great strides self-love would like to work with.”

H. MONSELL

“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”

EMERSON

“All we do which is good or permanent is done in us or through us, consciously or unconsciously, by a divine Spirit, with Whom, if we work cheerfully and obediently, the work thrives, if proudly and resistingly, it is marred.”

F. D. MAURICE