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...life freely." What makes a man is his will power - power which he must exercise over himself. If a man is offered an education and goes to college, yet does not improve the opportunity offered him, it is surely his fault; and so it is with us; if God offers us eternal life and we choose an evil one, the blame rests upon us. God never violates a man's free will; he can only stir up his soul to action and if that action is not for virtue, he alone and not God is to blame...
Dante and Petrarch do not belong to the same school. Dante was still of the mediaeval times, for he thought only of the universe and the city of God, and Virgil was interesting to him only because they led him through the universe. But Petrarch thought of the present world, the life of to-day, and the classics were interesting to him as expressions of men's lives at that time. Petrarch was a "humanist." Dante still clung to the religious beliefs and drawbacks of mediaeval times...
...other thought was that God not only started the processes of evolution but that he still governs their development. Men realize that God is back of all, the first cause from which everything springs, but they have yet to appreciate fully that God is not dead, that he is not powerless in the presence of his own creations, but that he is still alive, and that his activity still continues. If we understand that God's purpose is the evolution of the world, then we have one object in life, to allow ourselves to become his agents. If we will...
...doubt comes as to what God's will for us is. We have not the signs and the voices; we can use our common - sense. the advice of our friends, the inspirations of books, and the teachings of experience. When a man has once made up his mind as to his life and career after mature deliberation, he will do better not to alter that decision, Let him make sure, however, of one thing. - that he cast his lot in with the progressive nations. If he decide that other lands need his work, let him go to China, Japan...
...affairs of the world and shut up with his books and his amusements, so that he needs to be cautions lest he shall be narrowed rather than broadened by his course. He must first of all be sure that no religious convictions he has shall be disregarded. It is God in him. and, once given a chance to work, will lead him toward his best life...