Clergyman's

Only a moral education based on free inner discipline can bring to bear a salutary action and lead to a true morality.
- African Spir

Whether in a banquet somebody was to take it upon himself to snatch pieces from the mouth of the guests, we would be unanimous to find the method iniquitous and brutal , but if from another source the same is practised in a less apparent way , we hardly show ourselves offended by it
- African Spir

The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist.
- African Spir

A good man never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives in eternity.
- African Spir

What determinate events is, beside national, dynastic and particular egoism, the instinct of domination and conquest, in one word, forceBold text. Judging by the history of humanity, harms that men have had to suffer, harms that men have to suffer by their nature are minute in comparison to these they inflict to each others. The most fantastic imagination might not fabricate some cruelties, injustices and perfidies that men have not exceeded in practice.
- African Spir

There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good.
- African Spir

The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.
- African Spir

Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure . It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown the best of thmeselves.
- African Spir

Injustice having always hold sway on earth, there are some who imagine that the existing social order may subsist for ever. Whether this order could last until now, this was mainly due to the conviction of people, that it was of divine institution. But this belief is vanishing , and with it the only moral support of the actual order will collapse, leaving only brutal forces opposed to each others clashing, with no peaceful way out
- African Spir

Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty , he is trying to fill his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches , is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down , to put oneself on a false scent or trail.
- African Spir