December 6

“The true act of moral culture is to balance extravagant tendencies by quickening those that are languid. Growth is a safer means of producing harmony in character than repression. . . . The lower is subdued not by repression, but by making it simply an instrument of the higher. No fasting, for instance, will make the soul pure, but a noble attachment will keep all baser feelings in check and ennoble them.”

STOPFORD BROOKE

“The great way of resisting evil is by allowing the Holy Spirit to pour into your heart the love of your true Lord. Inordinate love of the creature, or love of what is evil in itself, cannot be effectually resisted by particular and direct antagonism. The love of evil is to be expelled by the love of that which is good. The way to overcome evil is to trust to ‘the expulsive power of a new affection’, the love of Christ your Lord.”

Bishop WEBB