October 24

“Life should be the same as love. There is no life worth having which does not give as much as it receives, or rather, as much as it can receive. It is not wrong in youth to take pleasure, but to take it and not give it, that is base. . . . Brighten darkened lives, soften the rude, make a sunshine of peace in stormy places, cover the faults and follies of men with the flower of love. . . . That is the best religion, the life of Christ, the very life of God.”

STOPFORD BROOKE

“O brother man! Fold to thy heart thy brother;
Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;
To worship rightly is to love each other,
Each smile, a hymn, each kindly deed, a prayer.

“Follow with reverent steps the great example
Of Him whose holy work was ‘doing good’;
So shall the wide earth seem our Father’s temple,
Each loving life a psalm of gratitude.”

WHITTIER

“The widest love, in other words, is personal; not an undefined sentiment, but the practical recognition of a real claim.”

Bishop WESTCOTT