Quotemeal: May. 23rd, 2015

Saturday, May 23, 2015

"To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right."
— Lesslie Newbigin

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"Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space."
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— Samuel Johnson —
"A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery."
— Morris Bender —
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
— Phillips Brooks —

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Illustration of Lesslie Newbigin — "To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself and goes out to do the right thing for no other reason than that it is right."

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