October 28

“Who knows if love and its beatitude, clear manifestation as it is of the universal harmony of things, is not the best demonstration of a fatherly and understanding God, just as it is the shortest road by which to reach Him? Love is a faith, and one faith leads to another. And this faith is happiness, light, and force. Only by it does a man enter into the series of the living, the awakened, the happy, the redeemed, - of those true men who know the value of existence and who labour for the glory of God and of the Truth. Till then we are but babblers and chatterers, spendthrifts of our time, our faculties and our gifts, without aim, without real joy – weak, infirm, and useless beings, of no account in the scheme of things.”

From Amiel’s Journal

“What thing thou lovest most, thou mak’st its nature thine;
Earthly, if that be earth, - if that be God, divine.”

R. C. TRENCH