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"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
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"In serving the poor, one serves humanity. In serving mankind, one serves equity. In serving goodness, one serves God. In serving the Creator, one serves himself."
"Every place is now God's temple, and His people can as truly serve Him in their daily employments as in His house. They are to be always "ministering," offering the spiritual sacrifice of prayer and praise, and presenting themselves a "living sacrifice."
"Real accomplishments do virtually nothing to serve me and they do everything to serve others. Anything less is nothing more than a meaningless task dressed in the deceptive finery of accomplishments."
"God cares about those in need, and so should His people."
"To serve means to dedicate or devote yourself fully to a certain course and to please the person you are serving in everything."
"The highest happiness on earth exists in the donation of self for the betterment of others."
"You shouldn't live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life."
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"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy."
"Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power."
"We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective."
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