An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.William James
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
William James
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
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