“In Mary of Bethany, with her broken box of ointment, we see shadowed forth the life of surrender… The lesson of giving, like all other lessons, is best learnt in His presence… Let our one aim in the matter be to find what still remains kept back; let our ideal of life be no longer a fair unbroken whole but a handful of shattered, empty fragments from which all that could be given has been lavished upon Christ. Is He not worthy?”
— Lilias Trotter