“I know by personal experience that if we sit and think over our shortcomings, dwell upon our poverty and our inability to get out of it, pity ourselves for the sorrows that have come upon us, regret the ignorant errors that we commit, we not only do not help ourselves, but we fasten these evils deeper. We grow worse instead of better. Something else in necessary, and for myself it is only by a recognition of the fact that I do not stand alone; that I am one with the Divine who knows no poverty, cannot possibly have sorrow, or be aware of any wrong-doing within Himself that I can be lifted out of my belief that I can not help my shortcomings, poverty, sorrow and disease.” – (Singing through life with God, James, George Wharton, 1858-1923)