What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.
The destiny of man is in his own soul.
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
No man can resolve himself into Heaven.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
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