'Beautiful enough to be the epitaph
Beautiful enough to be the epitaph on our gravestone
We do not know, when we are aiming for immortality, by what deeds or words of ours — we shall be remembered. It may be the most obscure aspect of our life, which shall shine with the most radiant glory.
Let us, then, seek to make everything we do, beautiful enough to be the epitaph on our gravestone .
To neglect the least duty, may be to spoil the way in which we are remembered.
One opportunity missed, may hurt the rest of our reputation.
If our hearts are always full of love — then our lives will be full of gentle deeds which will please God and bless the world.
Then we shall write our names where . . .
no floods of years,
no wasting tooth of decay ,
no hungry waves of time eating away the rock we stand on
— can ever destroy the record of our holy life!