Christ Within Us, The Hope

False Notions Of Liberty Are Strangely Common. People Talk Of It As If It Meant The Liberty Of Doing Whatever One Likes - Whereas The Only Liberty That A Man, Worthy Of The Name Of Man, Ought To Ask For, Is, To Have All Restrictions, Inward And Outward, Removed That Prevent His Doing What He Ought.

It Is Not By Change Of Circumstances, But By Fitting Our Spirits To The Circumstances In Which God Has Placed Us, That We Can Be Reconciled To Life And Duty.

What We Are, And Where We Are, Is God's Providential Arrange Ment — God's Doing, Though It May Be Man's Misdoing; And The Manly And The Wise Way Is To Look Your Disadvantages In The Face, And See What Can Be Made Out Of Them.

This Is The True Liberty Of Christ, When A Free Man Binds Himself In Love To Duty. Not In Shrinking From Our Distasteful Occupations, But In Fulfilling Them, Do We Realize Our High Origin.

No Man Ever Progressed To Greatness And Goodness But Through Great Mistakes.