From As Bill Sees It:
Eternal Values
Many
people will have no truck at all with absolute spiritual values.
Perfectionists, they say, are either full of conceit because they fancy
they have reached some impossible goal, or else they are swamped in
self-condemnation because they have not done so. Yet I think that we
should not hold this view. It is not the fault of great ideals that
they are sometimes misused and so become shallow excuses for guilt,
rebellion, and pride. On the contrary, we cannot grow very much unless
we constantly try to envision that the eternal spiritual values are.
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"Day
by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection. So we need
not be consumed by maudlin guilt for failure to achieve His likeness
and image by Thursday next. Progress is our aim, and His perfection is
the beacon, light-years away, that draws us on."
1. GRAPEVINE, JUNE 1961 2. LETTER, 1966
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