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"So long as low appetites are cherished, and selfish passions harbored, and vanity allowed a seat in our bosoms, so long will men be slaves to their stomachs, backs, and business.

Every quickening of our sensibility toward love, heaven, equity, will lead us to change our circumstances so as to make them conformable to our new inward life.
"It is for us to be true to God, however unlike the world we may seem.

It is in silence, in private, alone, that deeds can be done which shall outstrip those of the Alexanders and Napoleons in their eternal effects." "July 7 .-- All that we contend for is that man should obey God, and co-operate in His work _with his will_ and _not against it._ Interior submission to the Love Spirit is the answer to all questions concerning man's welfare, here and hereafter.

Whatever a man is led to do in obedience to it is well done and godlike, though it lead him to offer up his only dear son.
"We do say, with great emphasis, that nothing under heaven should prevent a man from following God.

Unless a man can give up all and follow Christ, he is none of His." "Every _true_ man is a genius.
"All genius is religious.
"The objective forms of genius are the expressions of the beautiful, the good, and the true; in one word--God.
"He is a genius in whom the beautiful, the good, and the true permanently inhabit.