July 24

“There is some soul of goodness in things evil
Would men observingly distil it out.”

SHAKESPEARE

“We must learn to see the good in the midst of much that is unlovely.”

GEORGE ELIOT [pen-name of Mary Ann Evans]

“I would be bold, and bear
To look into the swarthiest face of things,
For God’s sake who made them.”

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING

“Everyone must admire the courage which she displayed, but those who know by experience what the lowest of the masses in our large towns are like – how all decency and every vestige of humanity seems to be stamped out of their nature – will alone be in a condition to appreciate her power. That power should more properly be called the utmost cultivation of all her faculties. This enabled her first to see the image of God, defiled and darkened though it might be, impressed upon every living soul, - to feel her kinship with it, to lay her hand, not upon the defilements and impurity, but through the means of her infinite love and tenderness, upon the one spot yet capable of being healed, thus kindling the faintest spark into a living flame.”

From Biography of Sister Dora