“Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.” IfsGivingDoeWholeMomentsNextLove IsViewsCreationSelf LoveCitizensGratitudeSolitudeAnd LoveUniversalAimUnityRewardsFollowingThis LifeEnjoymentRepublicRulersCrownsIndifferentThronesMartyrEgotismJudicialUngratefulFlourishingDevastatedAxesDespotsLove Gratitude Book:Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller Source: Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller
“I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.” KnowsWorldGivingLightHumanityFatherHeavenLibertyPrinciplesSunSkyDangerBrokenShadowUnityCastsRaysSunny Author:Lajos Kossuth
“A large picture can give us images of things, but a relatively small one can best re-create the instantaneous unity of nature as a view - the unity of which the eyes take in at a single glance.” GivingEyeNatureViewsUnityGlancesInstantaneous Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays
“The Churches belong together in the Church. What that may mean for our ecclesiastical groupings we do not know. We have not discovered the kind or outward manifestation which God wills that we shall give to that inner unity. But we must seek it.” KnowsGivingKindMayMeanTogetherChurchUnityGods WillManifestation Author:Hugh Martin