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Here are two kinds of light, the light on the hither side of the darkness and the light beyond the darkness.
Life and Destiny (1913)
Ethical religion affirms the continuity of progress toward moral perfection.
Life and Destiny (1913)
Deep down in every human heart is the seed of a diviner life, which only needs the quickening influence of right conditions to germinate.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The bitter, yet merciful, lesson which death teaches us is to distinguish the gold from the tinsel, the true values from the worthless chaff.
Life and Destiny (1913)
When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains.
Life and Destiny (1913)
By ceaseless efforts to live the good life we maintain our moral sanity. Not from without, but from within, flow the divine waters that renew the soul.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The symbols of religion are ciphers of which the key is to be found in moral experience. It is in vain we pore over the ciphers unless we possess the key.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The moral ideal would embrace the whole of life. In its sight nothing is petty or indifferent. It touches the veriest trifles and turns them into shining gold.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The divine in man is our sole ground for believing that there is anything divine in the universe outside of man.
Life and Destiny (1913)
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
Life and Destiny (1913)
It is not possible to enter into the nature of the Good by standing aloof from it — by merely speculating upon it.
Life and Destiny (1913)
There is a universal element in man which he can assert by so acting as if the purpose of the Universe were also his purpose.
Life and Destiny (1913)
It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds.
Life and Destiny (1913)
Somehow the secret of the universe is hidden in our breast. Somehow the destinies of the universe depend upon our exertions.
Life and Destiny (1913)
Vile deeds are vile, no matter whether we know or do not know what, after death, will be the fate of the doer.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The moral law is the expression of our inmost nature, and when we live in consonance with it we feel that we are living out our true being.
Life and Destiny (1913)
We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.
Life and Destiny (1913)
There may be, and there ought to be, progress in the moral sphere. The moral truths which we have inherited from the past need to be expanded and restated.
Life and Destiny (1913)
The question what to believe is perhaps the most momentous that anyone can put to himself. Our beliefs are not to be classed among the luxuries, but among the necessaries of existence.
Life and Destiny (1913)