July 27

“No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving; as well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing to give the sea because they are not rivers.
“Give what you have; to some one it may be better than you dare to think.”

LONGFELLOW

“Do not despond because your means of doing good appear trifling or insignificant; for though one soweth and another reapeth, yet it is God that giveth the increase; and who can tell whether He will not cause that which is sewn to bear fruit an hundred fold?”

JEAN INGELOW

“There must be a perpetual crusade carried on against small evils – very wearing sometimes. It is necessary to believe that in thus setting in order certain spots on God’s earth, still more in presenting to a few of His Children a somewhat higher standard of right, we are doing His work, and that He will not permit us to lose sight of His large laws, but will rather make them evident to us through small details.”

OCTAVIA HILL