into deeds. Doing them
you gain a larger peace of mind and sense of stability of life than in
any other way. If you want the equilibrium of faith you will find it
by simply laying life's daily details on the plain foundation of His
principles. Nothing could be plainer; there are no hair-splitting
metaphysics, no subtle questions of policy here; do these things and
the heart finds calm, the life certitude, the soul satisfaction.

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The Passion for Perfection

_The Great Search_
_The Hunger of the Ages_
_The Sole Satisfaction_

_Pain is the parent of power._

_Marking time leaves no mark on time._

_The proof of love is loving the unlovely._

_Truth never is found by twisting the facts._

_Wings come not to those who refuse to walk._

_An ideal usually is what we want the other man to be._

_There is no righteousness without some self-respect._

_You cannot lead men to the divine by crawling in the dust._

_The real saints have no time to write their autobiographies._

_When a man boils over quickly you soon find out what is in him._

_True piety simply is the prosperity of the eternal things in a man._

_The world never will be won from the love of evil until we make the
good lovely._

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THE GREAT SEARCH

The cry, "How may I be right?" is the cry of the ages. Human history
is the record of our attempt to answer it. Man is naturally a truth
seeker, and this is the search of all truly great souls. The enduring
monuments of literature are those that have in some measure answered
this question. All things that have been worth while have helped us to
know and to realize the right. Health, happiness, freedom, morality,
all are but parts of the right; all are but sections of the sublime
whole for which man ever seeks. The search manifests itself in
different ways; it may be as science, the passion for the knowledge of
the right relations of things; as justice, for right relations amongst
men; as philosophy, as ethics, as religion. Back of all our life is
the instinct of progress; we push towards the perfect. And perfection
we now know rests not in more things but in bringing all the things
that are into right relations with one another.

The idea that any man can be right regardless of others we scout as
absurd. The ideal civilization we work for here, even the heaven we
long for, is simply a condition of living where the things that
separate, despoil, and introduce discor