Great Throughts Treasury

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Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley

Any religion which is not an affirmation of the ultimate value of truth and knowledge, beauty and its expression, and goodness and moral action, which ever sets itself up against these, is in that respect a false, low and incomplete religion.

Action | Beauty | Knowledge | Religion | Respect | Truth | Respect | Beauty | Value |

Dietrich von Hildebrand

The splendor and metaphysical reality of morality flashes forth only when the absolute goodness is seen not merely as the platonic idea, but as the living God.

Absolute | God | Morality | Reality |

Julian Huxley, fully Sir Julian Sorell Huxley

Any conflict which prevents the personality from attaining wholeness is a hindrance: all taboos against considering any part of the universe in relation to man and his destiny are hindrances; so, too, are all restrictions upon the free use of reason, or the free appeal of conscience. In other words, any religion which is not an affirmation of the ultimate value of truth and knowledge, beauty and its expression, and goodness and moral action, which ever sets itself up against these, is in that respect a false, low and incomplete religion.

Action | Beauty | Conscience | Destiny | Knowledge | Man | Personality | Reason | Religion | Respect | Truth | Universe | Wholeness | Words | Respect | Beauty | Value |

Lao Tzu, ne Li Urh, also Laotse, Lao Tse, Lao Tse, Lao Zi, Laozi, Lao Zi, La-tsze

The highest good is like that of the water. The goodness of water is that it benefits the ten thousand creatures, yet itself does not scramble, but is content with the places that all men disdain.

Disdain | Good | Men |

Thomas Merton

The saint… wants himself to be simply a window through which God’s mercy shines on the world. And for this he strives to be holy… in order that the goodness of God may never be obscured by any selfish act of his.

God | Mercy | Order | Wants | World | God |

Fritz A. Rothschild

Deity cannot be understood through a knowledge of timeless qualities of goodness and perfection, but only by sensing the living acts of God’s concern and his dynamic attentiveness in relation to man, who is the passionate object of his interest.

Attentiveness | Dynamic | God | Knowledge | Man | Object | Perfection | Qualities |

Frederick H. Ryer, Sr.

No matter how many times you have wronged or hurt by others, all it takes is one act of kindness to make you believe in the goodness that exists in the world.

Kindness | World |

Albert Schweitzer

When our wills are united with the will of God, we never take all the goodness and beauty and people and things in life for granted, but we accept them again and again as a gift from him – given that we may serve him with still greater joy and thank him for it.

Beauty | God | Joy | Life | Life | People | Will | Wills | Beauty |

Leo Tolstoy, aka Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy or Tolstoi

There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.

Greatness | Simplicity | Truth |

Kawabata Yasunari

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

Beauty | Language |

Albert Einstein

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Religion | Righteousness | Soul |

Alan Cohen

Trust frees you to see the wisdom of the moment. The goodness of life is invincible, and in Justice is your assurance of success. The laws of consciousness work consistently for your highest good. They offer you consolation and guidance. You now embody the choice to earn your goal, which is at hand.

Choice | Consciousness | Consolation | Good | Guidance | Justice | Life | Life | Success | Trust | Wisdom | Work |

Alan Cohen

To love ourselves for our goodness is easy. To love ourselves in spite of our errors is downright Holy.

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