“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.” IfsMenHelpingRunningActionDesireTakenHabitPleaseActivityElementsTrackSelfishSelfishnessHelp MeThoughts And Actions Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures
“He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!” IfsLooksEndsLightPurposeTurnsUniverseLosesDarknessMachinesLook UpHeavenlyLight Within Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures
“Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.” IfsDoeCultureTalentRootsSincerityEarnestness Author:James Freeman Clarke
“Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.” IfsMenLifeSoulWould BeCourageConscienceRootsBraveBe BraveTrue Courage Book:Self-culture, lectures Source: Self-culture, lectures
