Lectures XI-XIII, Saintliness
Enumerates the inner conditions and practical fruits of saintly character: asceticism, strength of soul, purity, charity.
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From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
The saintly character is marked by a wider life beyond selfish interests, conviction of an Ideal Power, self-surrender, an elation of freedom, and a shifting of the emotional center toward loving affections.
Lectures XIV-XV, Value of Saintliness
Pragmatic test: judge religion by its fruits, not its roots.
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