Iman Maleki Art
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway. In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified. Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case. All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Geoffrey L. Rudd
Martin Luther
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Logan Pearsall Smith
John Wooden
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