October 6

“I beg you, my dear friend, whatever be your suffering, to learn first of all that not to take your sorrow off, is what God means, but to put strength into you that you may carry it. Be sure your sorrow is not giving you its best, unless it makes you a more thoughtful person than you have ever been before.”

PHILLIPS BROOKS

“Measure thy life by loss instead of gain.
Not by the wine drunk, but by the wine poured forth;
For love’s strength stands in loves sacrifice,
And whoso suffers most has most to give.
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How poor were earth if all its martydoms,
If all its struggling sighs of sacrifice
Were swept away, and all were satiate-smooth;
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What we win and hold is through some strife.”

E. H. KING