January 9

“There is so much to be set right in the world, there are so many to be led and helped and comforted, that we must continually come in contact with such in our daily life. Let us only take care that we do not miss our turn of service, and pass by those to whom we might have been sent on an errand straight from God.”

“The common problem, yours, mine, every one’s,
Is not to fancy what were fair in life
Provided it could be – but finding first
What may be, then find how to make it fair
Up to our means – a very different thing.”

R. BROWNING

“Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same material one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas. Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.”