September 6

“Our life is determined for us, and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us to do.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“The one secret of life and development is not to devise and plan, but to fall in with the forces at work – to do every moment’s duty aright – that being the part allotted to us; and let come – not what will, for there is no such thing – but what the Eternal Thought wills for each of us, has intended for each of us from the first. If men would but believe that they are in process of creation, and consent to be made – let the Maker handle them as the potter his clay, yielding themselves to respondent motion and submissive hopeful action with the turining of His wheel, they would ere long find themsxelves able to welcome every pressure of that Hand on them, even when it was felt in pain, and sometimes not only to believe but to recognise the Divine end in view, the bringing of a son into glory.”

G. MACDONALD

“We mustn’t be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot, we must wait to be guided.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]