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The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Thomas Szasz, fully Thomas Stephen Szasz
Keeping another person waiting is a basic tactic for defining him as inferior and oneself as superior.
Ability | Conformity | Health | Play |
Thomas R. Kelly, fully Thomas Raymond Kelly
Explore the depths of humility, not with your intellects but with your lives, lived in prayer of humble obedience. And there you will find that humility is not merely a human virtue. For there is a humility that is in God Himself. Be ye humble as God is humble. For love and humility walk hand in hand, in God as well as in man. But there is something about deepest humility which makes men bold. For utter obedience is self-forgetful obedience. No longer do we hesitate and shuffle and apologize because, say we, we are weak, lowly creatures and the world is a pack of snarling wolves among whom we are sent as sheep by the Shepherd. I must confess that, on human judgment, the world tasks we face are appalling—well-nigh hopeless. Only the inner vision of God, only the God-blindedness of unreservedly dedicated souls, only the utterly humble ones can bow and break the raging pride of a power-mad world.
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.
Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
Contentment | Grave | Longing | Man | Object |
Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.
Health |
Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady.
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my mettle Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamped upon it.