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Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness.

— Phillips Brooks

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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Primary Education (1916)

For greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Sermons (1879)

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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