Living a Christian
My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. I give you a new commandment—love one another; love one another just as I have loved you. It is by this that every one will recognize you as my disciples—by the love you bear one another.
—Jesus.
Every Good Deed is Charity
Every good deed is charity. Giving water to the thirsty is charity; putting a wanderer in the right path is charity; removing stones and thorns from the road is charity. Our true wealth is the good we do. When one dies, men ask what property he left behind him, but angels ask what good deeds he sent before him.
—Anon.
Home is God’s garden of character; the soul may grow elsewhere, but it grows to perfection there.
Martin Luther
(Death Feb. 18, 1546. Lines written at Luther’s grave in Wittenburg.)
Here rests the heart whose throbbing shook the earth!
High soul of courage, we do owe thee much;
Thee and thy warrior comrades, who the worth
Of freedom proved and put it to the touch!
Because, O Luther, thou the truth didst love,
And spake the truth out, faced the sceptered lie,
E’en we, thy unforgetting heirs, may move
Fearless, erect, unshackled, ‘neath the sky.
—Richard Watson Gilder.