Frank C. Lockwood famous quotes

It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory. . . . There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.
-- Frank C. Lockwood

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The ultimate fact of the universe is love; and its sway is all-comprehensive, and absolutely certain of final victory.
-- Frank C. Lockwood

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The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have found so persistent in the soul of man, urging him to purity, and service, and perfect love, is the same energy which, outside and above the soul of man, we name God.
-- Frank C. Lockwood

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Man ever is and always shall be blessed; for he loves, and love is an onward current that never ebbs; and borne upon this current humanity will at last make its far, fair haven; and meanwhile, as it voyages, it will find the course not too rough, but glorified by frequent halcyon days and calm nights set with stars.
-- Frank C. Lockwood

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The common ground where the activities of God and man become one is the motive of perfect love; for in the last resolve love is the essence of God's nature. When he thinks, love is his thought; when he wills, love is the product of his will. To the degree, therefore, that man thinks and wills the good--to the degree that he realizes love in his finite dealings--he interfuses himself with God.
-- Frank C. Lockwood

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.

To Allah we belong and to Him is our return.

Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my homeland, make all my loved ones happy. I see no further than this.

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.