William James Quote

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

Lectures XIV and XV, "The Value of Saintliness" - The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try...

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try...

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try...

If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try...