Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form ourjudgment of thetruenature of thehumanmind, not from sloth andstupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and ferventdesires of the best andwisest of the species.
Theological Lectures, No. 5, "Of the Immortality of the Soul", reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 514.
How shall I do tolove?Believe. How shall I do to believe? Love.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 401.
It is aunion with a HigherGood bylove, that alone is endlessperfection. The only sufficient object for man must be something that adds to and perfects hisnature, to which he must beunited in love; somewhat higher than himself, yea, the highest ofall,the Father ofspirits.That alone completes a spirit andblesses it, — to love Him, the spring of spirits.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert,Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 449.
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