# If you could only carry one sentence from this passage into the rest of your life, which would it be, and what would you have to give up to live by it?

_Theme: **core_values** - card 1/4 - 2026-05-13_

> From this point of view we may admit the human charity which we find in all saints, and the great excess of it which we find in some saints, to be a genuinely creative social force, tending to make real a degree of virtue which it alone is ready to assume as possible. The saints are authors, _auctores_, increasers, of goodness.

-- William James, _The Varieties of Religious Experience_

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