October 17

“It was thought in the old time that the best way of serving God was by the sacrifice of rams and lambs; but men grew gradually into the blessed belief that a lowly heart and a contrite spirit – these, and these only – are the sacrifices acceptable to God. From costly offerings, elaborate ritual, and useless ceremonial, men grew into the belief that the visitation of the orphan and the widow, and a charitable life, were the Ritual of true Religion.”

GEORGE DAWSON

“Religion does not consist in the performance of certain ceremonial acts at specified times, outside which acts and times it has no place; but consists in framing our whole life, and all our acts, upon a distinct view of our position as created beings, charged, by the fact of our creation, with duties both to our fellow creatures and to our Creator.”

EDWARD DENISON

“It must never be absent from the mind that Religion is not a set of opinions, but life in Jesus Christ.”

From Ecce Deus