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“Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to salvation.”

Believe Christ Vision Conditions Perfection Salvation Surpassing

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.”

“The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.”

Humans Race Perfection Salvation Theology Human Race Damnation

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.”

Ifs Knows Men Ends Cities Darkness Journey Humility Ought Perfection Salvation Who You Are Work Out Where You Are Another Man Sanctity

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“The church had to find a way to protect Jesus' perfection so that he could do the work of salvation which, in their frame of reference, only God could do, because God had to come into this world from outside this world to rescue the fallen creation.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“I am sometimes almost terrified at the scope of the demands made upon me, at the perfection of the self-abandonment required of me; yet outside of such absoluteness can be no salvation.”

Made Self Sometimes Demand Perfection Salvation Terrified Scope Abandonment

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.”

“Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.”

Men Wells Looks Said Ideas Animal Higher Perfection Raises Salvation Seeking Look Up

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.”

Men Moments Views All Things Perfection Salvation Gods Will

Author:Saint Peter

“In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.”

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Author:Thomas a Kempis