Life Is A Struggle

Life is not given to us that we might live idly without work.

No, our life is a struggle and a journey.

• Good should struggle with evil;
• truth should struggle with falsehood;
• freedom should struggle with slavery;
• love should struggle with hatred.

Life is a movement, a walk along the way of life to the fulfillment of those ideas which illuminate us, both in our intellect and in our hearts, with divine light.

(After Giuseppe Mazzini, in A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy, 29 February)

3 March 2016

Light

The light exposes that which is evil. The best way to rid the world of any evil is to drag it into the light. So long as the thing is being done in secret, it goes on; but when it is taken into the light of day, it dies a natural death. The surest way to cleanse the depths of our own hearts and the practices of any society in which we happen to be involved is to expose them to the light of Christ. (William Barclay, The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, p. 165)
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