"One of the best things in the gospel……" — James Freeman Clarke
"One of the best things in the gospel of Jesus is the stress it lays on small things. It ascribes more value to quality than to quantity; it teaches that God does not ask how much we do, but how we do it."
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James Freeman Clarke
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