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“Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth”

People Ifs Self Truth Sacrifice Eternal Accepted Nonsense Sole Absurdity Sublime Crude Self Sacrifice

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children

“For history, I say again, has this and this only for its own: if a man will start upon it, he must sacrifice to no God but Truth; he must neglect all else; his sole rule and unerring guide is this - to think not of those who are listening to him now, but of the yet unborn who shall seek his converse.”

Ifs Thinking Men Sacrifice Listening Guides Neglect Sole Unborn Converses

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)

“When you pray, pray so that you may know Him. When you seek to simplify, do it as a means of knowing Him more. When you surrender, or behave with humility or sacrifice, do it with the sole purpose in mind to know Him.”

Knows Mind May Mean Purpose Knowing Sacrifice Humility Praying Surrender Behave Sole Simplify

Author:Charles R. Swindoll