Quotemeal for Monday, January 23, 1950

"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so long as we can lend a hand, we have some hope; but if we have to fall back upon God — ah, then things must be critical indeed!"

— A. J. Gossip

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"Obedience is the fruit of faith; patience, the bloom on the fruit."

— Rossetti —

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— Coventry Patmore —

"Be faithful in the little practices of love which will build in you the life of holiness and make you Christlike."

— Mother Teresa —

"'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light..."

— John Selden —