It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.
Be gentle and kind with every one, and severe with yourself.
From moment to moment one can bear much.
It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world. Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good. Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.