November 5

“Christianity has abler advocates than in its professed defenders, in those many quiet and humble men and women who, in the light of it and strength of it, lead holy, beautiful, and self-denying lives.
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“Wherever there is genuine love for good and goodness, no speculative superstructure of opinion can be so extravagant as to forfeit those graces which are promised, not to clearness of intellect, but to purity of heart.”

FROUDE

“Good love, however ill-placed,
Is better for man’s soul in the end
Than if he loved ill, what deserves love well,
A Pagan, kissing for a step of Pan
The wild goat’s hoof-print on the loaming down,
Exceeds our modern thinker who turns back
The strata – granite, limestone, coal and clay,
Concluding coldly with, ‘Here’s law, where’s God?’”

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

“It is only the principles of Truth, Goodness, and Right, which are to last for ever. The forms in which these exhibit themselves will necessarily vary with the age and state of society.”

GOULBURN