1895
With a Great Affection
He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career, and he is greatest who does the most of all these things and does them best. — R. D. Hitchcock.
The Truth and Right
There has always been, and there always will be, the brave advancing minority, the world's hope, the invincible few — not a remnant, meaning something left over, but a leadership, keeping in the van of thought, bearing and daring for what they believe to be true and right. — John Learned.
With the Right
The broadest and most far sighted intellect is utterly unable to foresee the ultimate consequences of any great social change. Ask yourself on all occasions, if there be any element of right or wrong in the question before you. If so, take your part with the right, and trust God to see that it shall prove the expedient. — Wendell Phillips.
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Saturday, May 5, 2007
Truth
1895
"Truth, like food, is valuable to men as they are prepared to digest and appropriate it. Only as they were able to bear it, did Christ reveal the truth to His disciples, and He distinctly declared that, 'He had many things to say to them, but they could not bear them now,' To the inner circle to whom it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom, He uttered plainly what He could utter to others only in parables. He withheld His disciples from speaking of the truth which they were prepared to confess — namely, that He was the Christ of God — because there would come the puzzling and seemingly contradictory fact that He must be denied, betrayed and crucified. Till the crowning proofs of His divinity by the resurrection were in, the people were not ready to accept the truth which the disciples saw. Truth may as surely be damagingly misused as food may." — Christian Intelligencer (Baptist).
"Truth, like food, is valuable to men as they are prepared to digest and appropriate it. Only as they were able to bear it, did Christ reveal the truth to His disciples, and He distinctly declared that, 'He had many things to say to them, but they could not bear them now,' To the inner circle to whom it was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom, He uttered plainly what He could utter to others only in parables. He withheld His disciples from speaking of the truth which they were prepared to confess — namely, that He was the Christ of God — because there would come the puzzling and seemingly contradictory fact that He must be denied, betrayed and crucified. Till the crowning proofs of His divinity by the resurrection were in, the people were not ready to accept the truth which the disciples saw. Truth may as surely be damagingly misused as food may." — Christian Intelligencer (Baptist).
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