July 6

“The mark of a saint is not perfection, but consecration. A saint is not a man without faults, but a man who has given himself without reserve to God.”

Bishop WESTCOTT

“All truly consecrated men learn little by little that what they are consecrated to is not only joy or sorrow, but a divine idea and a profound obedience, which can find their full outward expression not in joy, and not in sorrow, but in the mysterious and inseparable mingling of the two. . . .
“Under a cloud of circumstances we must walk; but there is behind it that law and that truth which really made the life of Jesus - the law of obedience and the truth of sonship – then for us, too, light shall come through the cloud, and mingling with the darkness make that new condition in which it is best for a man’s soul to live, that sweet and strong condition in which both joy and sorrow may have place, but which is greater than either of them – the condition which He called peace.”

PHILLIPS BROOKS