“Only he who ceaselessly aims at moral completeness is, in the true sense, a human being.”
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“The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life.”
“Let us found religion upon a basis of perfect intellectual honesty.”
“Religion, if it is to mean anything at all, must stand for the highest truth.”
“The criterion of all right relations whatsoever is that we are helped by them.”
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act So As To Elicit the Best In Others and Thereby In Thy Self.”
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
“The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.”
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you!”
“We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.”
“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”
“Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.”
“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.”