Whatever Capacities There May Be For Enjoyment

Man Has Wants Deeper Than Can Be Supplied By Wealth Or Nature Or Domestic Affections. His Great Relations Are To His God And To Eternity.

The Essential Elements Of Giving Are Power And Love - Activity And Affection - And The Consciousness Of The Race Testifies That In The High And Appropriate Exercise Of These Is A Blessedness Greater Than Any Other.

The Strength That We Want Is Not A Brute, Unregulated Strength; The Beauty That We Want Is No Mere Surface Beauty; But We Want A Beauty On The Surface Of Life That Is From The Central Force Of Principle Within, As The Beauty On The Cheek Of Health Is From The Central Force At The Heart.

The Moral Government Of God Is A Movement In A Line Onwards Towards Some Grand Consummation, In Which The Principles, Indeed, Are Ever The Same, But The Developments Are Always New - In Which, Therefore, No Experience Of The Past Can Indicate With Certainty What New Openings Of Truth, What Hew Manifestations Of Goodness, What New Phases Of The Moral Heaven May Appear.

Man Can Have Strength Of Character Only As He Is Capable Of Controlling His Faculties; Of Choosing A Rational End; And, In Its Pursuit, Of Holding Fast To His Integrity Against Al! The Might Of External Nature.