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There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.

— Halford E. Luccock Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962)

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We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.

To the faith that "God is love" and that love is the power that can save the world, many give the jaunty answer "What nonsense!"

The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.

Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)

There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be.

Marching Off the Map: And Other Sermons (1952)

In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.

The Questing Spirit: Religion in the Literature of Our Time (1947)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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