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C.F. Blumhardt

Posted in Autonomy, Blindness, Character, Christian Life, Commitment, Culture, Desire, Discipleship, Experience, Faith, God, Heart, Humanity, Love, Meaning, Sin, Social Problems, Spirituality, Values, Worship on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

You rack your brain to solve the mystery of the Savior, but you would do better to examine the puzzle of your own heart. You should be wondering why you are so impenetrable: why your intentions, which are always so noble, are followed by so few good deeds; why, despite your pious impulses, your life [...]

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Benjamin Franklin

Posted in Character, Christian Life, Pride on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

There is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility. (Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography)

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John Stuart Mill

Posted in Arts, Character, Culture, Humanity, Mankind, Social Class, Social Problems, Westernism on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in society has always been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor and moral courage which it contained. That so few [people] now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our times. (John Stuart Mill, [...]

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