Great Throughts Treasury

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Honoré de Balzac

Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

Ambition | Character | Daughter | Envy | Rivalry | Child |

Charles Backus

Regeneration is the beginning of holiness in the soul, and admits of no progression; sanctification is carried on progressively in the heart of the renewed, and will be continued until it is completed in the concluding moments of life.

Beginning | Character | Heart | Life | Life | Soul | Will | Wisdom |

Mateo Alemán, fully Mateo Alemán y de Enero

That poverty which is not the daughter of the spirit is but the mother of shame and reproach; it is a disreputation that drowns all the other good parts that are in man; it is a disposition to all kind of evil; it is a man’s greatest foe.

Character | Daughter | Evil | Good | Man | Mother | Poverty | Shame | Spirit |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The meaning of man's life lies in his perfecting the universe. He has to distinguish, father and redeem the sparks of holiness scattered throughout the darkness of the world. This service is the motive of all precepts and good deeds.

Character | Darkness | Deeds | Distinguish | Father | Good | Life | Life | Man | Meaning | Service | Universe | World |

Arundell Charles St. John-Mildmay

Every duty brings its peculiar delight, every denial its appropriate compensation, every thought its recompense, every love its elysium, every cross its crown; pay goes with performance as effect with cause. Meanness overreaches itself; vice vitiates whoever indulges it; the wicked wrong their own souls; generosity greatens; virtue exalts; charity transfigures; and holiness is the essence of angelhood. God does not require us to live on credit; he pays us what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice.

Cause | Character | Charity | Choice | Compensation | Credit | Duty | Evil | Generosity | God | Good | Heaven | Hell | Love | Meanness | Recompense | Thought | Virtue | Virtue | Wrong | God | Thought | Vice |

Phillips Brooks

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Heaven | Wisdom |

Nathanael Emmons, also Nathaniel Emmons

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

God | Good | Honor | Humility | Love | Wisdom | God |

Benjamin Franklin

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Admiration | Daughter | Ignorance | Wisdom |

Aulus Gellius

Truth the daughter of Time.

Daughter | Time | Truth | Wisdom |

Samson Raphael Hirsch

The Greeks stressed the holiness of beauty; the Jews emphasized the beauty of holiness.

Beauty | Wisdom | Beauty |

Morris S. Lazaron, fully Morris Samuel Lazaron

The grandeur of natural order, man's pursuit of truth, his appreciation of beauty, his drive toward justice and holiness - it is all one... One God, one Mind, one Will, one Beauty, one Love.

Appreciation | Beauty | God | Justice | Love | Man | Mind | Order | Truth | Will | Wisdom | Appreciation |

Guiseppe Mazzini

Truth is the daughter of Time.

Daughter | Time | Truth | Wisdom |

John Blofeld, fully John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld

The world is full of paradox. For example, [in Buddhism] though no notion of a creator is entertained, great stress is laid upon the need for faith and piety. By faith is meant not trust in a benevolent diety avid for love, praise and obedience, but conviction that beyond the seeming reality misreported by our senses which is inherently unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively unsatisfactory, lies a mystery which, when intuitively perceived, will give our lives undreamed-of meaning and endow the most insignificant object with holiness and beauty.

Beauty | Example | Faith | Love | Meaning | Mystery | Need | Obedience | Object | Paradox | Piety | Praise | Reality | Trust | Will | World |

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In religious matters it is holiness which gives authority.

Authority |

Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is in the way in which we gratify physical needs that the seed of holiness is planted.