Mohammed died 632.
Thomas Rickman born 1776.
Charles Reade born 1814.
John Everett Millais born 1829.
If one touch of nature makes the whole world kin, methinks that
sweet and wonderful thing sympathy is not less powerful. What golden
barriers, what ice of centuries, it can melt in a moment!
--Charles Reade.
If I had two loaves of bread, I would sell one to buy white
hyacinths to feed my soul.
--Mohammed.
What do you live for if it is not to make life less difficult for
each other?
--George Eliot.
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep
oneself unspotted from the world.
--James 1. 27.
My Father, help me to understand that kind hearts and willing hands
are made possible by the depth and greatness of thy love. May I
possess the spirit of forgiveness and consideration, that I may not
hold prejudice and revenge, but help with sympathy and tenderness.
Amen.