November 6

“I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest – I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much than to condemn too much.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“It seems to me a waste of time which we can ill afford, and a sort of ‘quarrel by the way’ which our Christian vow of enmity against moral evil makes utterly unreasonable, when Christians suspend their great business, and loosen the bond of their union with each other, by venting useless regrets and complaints against one another’s errors, instead of labouring to lessen one another’s sins.
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I have one great principle that I never lose sight of; to insist strongly on the difference between Christian and non-Christian, and to sink into nothing the difference between Christian and Christian.”

Dr ARNOLD