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22Mar10 The Paradox of the Moral Life

The paradox of the moral life consists in this: that the highest mutuality is achieved where mutual advantages are not consciously sought as the fruit of love. For love is purest where it desires no returns for itself; and it is most potent where it is purest. Complete mutuality, with its advantages to each party [...]

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21Mar10 How We Fashion Ourselves

We can fashion ourselves by placing ourselves in the hands first of the supreme Artist, God, and then by subjecting ourselves to such holy influences and such formative powers as shall make him into a man of God. Or he may foolishly trust himself to unworthy hands and become at last a misshapen and inartistic [...]

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21Mar10 The Dis-integration of Isaiah

- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of integrity – When the prophet Isaiah had a vision of the glorious and awesome Creator of the universe, he was overwhelmed by the holiness of God. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and [...]

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20Mar10 Judging God According to Our Standards

There are many occasions when we are tempted to sit in judgment of God because of a struggle with adverse circumstances in our own lives or in the lives of others. There are other times when we deceive ourselves into thinking that we can get away with acts we know were wrong since there were [...]