J. C. Sharp Quotes. James Wood, comp. 1899. Dictionary of Quotations

James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

J. C. Sharp


Private self-regard must have been wholly subordinated to, if not entirely cast out by, a higher principle of action and a purer affection before a man can become either truly moral or religious.	1
Self-love may be, and as a fact often is, the first impulse that drives a man to seek to become morally and religiously better.	2
The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one.	3
The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to furnish men with a standard of action and a motive to work by, which shall not intensify each man’s selfishness, but raise him ever more and more above it.	4
The essence of all immorality, of sin, is the making self the centre to which we subordinate all other beings and interests.	5
The pleasure-seeker is not the pleasure-finder; those are the happiest men who think least about happiness.	6
There is a measure of self-regard which is right, wherein the individual self is identified with the universal self.	7
This is the first condition of a living morality as well as of vital religion, that the soul shall find a true centre out from and above itself, round which it shall revolve.	8
Water cannot rise above the level from which it springs; no more can moral theories.	9