June 8

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. — Jas 1:27

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.

Prayer

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.