As far as human frailty will permit, each little trifling piece of duty
which presents itself to us in daily life, if it be only a compliance
with some form of social courtesy, should receive a consecration, by
setting God--His will, word, and Providence--before us in it, and by
lifting up our hearts to Him in ejaculatory prayer, while we are engaged
in it. The idea must be thoroughly worked into the mind, and woven into
the texture of our spiritual life, that the minutest duties which God
prescribes to us in the order of His Providence--a casual visit, a
letter of sympathy, an obligation of courtesy, are not by any means too
humble to be made means of spiritual advancement, if only the thing be
done "as to the Lord, and not to men."
~ Edward M. Goulburn
~ Edward M. Goulburn
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