“I wish to be alive to all the little low and dark motives which are continually coming into the soul, and which, I believe, if they are not marked and continually carried up to a higher power to be prayed away, are ever liable to settle there, and thence to come out in some questionable and deceitful action. Truth, real inward truth, is the rarest, I think, of all things. Some little petty subterfuge, some verbal or acted dishonesty, we are continually surprised into; and against this neither a high code of honour nor an exact profession of religion is much preservation. Continued intercourse with the Father of Light, revealing our own darkness to us is, I am quite sure, the one safeguard, and a Christian who should lose this is in more danger of stumbling than an infidel.”
F. D. MAURICE
“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult. . . . Examine your words well and you will find that even when you have a motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something about them which is not the exact truth.”
GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]
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