#wil

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#god #knowledge #make #only #redemptive

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#before #believer #freedom #lunch #man

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cunning #fight #life #most #personal

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#duly #long #make #men #miserable

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#before #child #conceived #down #every

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#am #anyone #care #cheapest #freedom

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#equality #his #human #like #loudly

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#better #let us #mankind #more #only

The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#ask #doctrine #false #himself #honest

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it. ↗

— Bill Hybels

#because #bob #contrary #cost #dangerous