“All spiritual strength for ourselves, all noble ties to one another, have their real source in that inner sanctuary where God denies His lonely audience to none. Its secrets are holy; its asylum, inviolate; its consolations, sure; and all are open to the simple heart-word, "Thou art my hiding-place.” HeartArtRealSpiritualSimpleSecretAudienceSourceHolyLonelyDenyNobleTiesHidingConsolationSanctuaryAsylumsHiding PlaceSpiritual Strength Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.” WaySecretModernMoralityAnxietyIdealsRootsCurrentsTerrorNobleRussiaCommunismConsistentSovietDreadDisguiseAltruismLiteralEmbodimentIrrationalitySoviet Russia Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
“Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing.” PeopleHeartCharacterCoursesEvilEasyEffortSecretKindnessRewardsNobleWickedRefrainSteers Author:Honore de Balzac
“When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.” ShouldMindTwoSecretKeysNobleResentmentLocksTwo FriendsLock Up Author:Diogenes