The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.


P. 127. - Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound,...

The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound,...

The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound,...

The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound,...