November 8

“The more readily we admit the possibility of our own cherished convictions being mixed with error, the more vital and helpful whatever is right in them will become; and no error is so conclusively fatal as the idea that God will not allow us to err, though he has allowed all others to do so. . . .
“In every nation, they that fear God and work righteousness are accepted of Him. See that you understand what that righteousness means, and set hand to it stoutly; you will always measure your neighbour’s creed kindly in proportion to the substantial fruits of your own.”

RUSKIN

“We are quite right in regarding with suspicion, and in narrowly questioning and examining, all new-fangled views, whether social or religious. And yet there should be a readiness in us, though not to abandon for one moment the old truth, yet to recognise any new form in which it may be presented. . . . Truth is many-sided like a cube; and we should never be so tenacious of the aspect of it which is familiar to us, as not to be ready to come round and view it under another’s aspect.”

GOULBURN