One Must Stop Reading the Bible or...

Those few visits [to the sick and poor] used up the very time I usually spend in drawing. But on the whole I am glad I went with Mother because it has gratified her. Besides, one must either stop reading the Bible altogether or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy, pleasant things one likes to do.

~ from Stepping Heavenward

by Elizabeth Prentiss

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

~ James 1:22