The test of love is service. The love which does not give and do the utmost is not love. To live for one’s self in any way, in any degree, is to leave a blur, a blemish, on the life, however attractive it may be in other regards.
Transfiguration is not splendor that glows and flashes in light — transfiguration is love. Nothing else shines. The most brilliant life as men rate life is tame and lusterless till it begins to serve, and then instantly glory begins to radiate from it. There is more true glory in one homely act of self-denial, in one deed of thoughtful kindness, in one moment of patient serving of another, than in a whole Sinai of clouds and lightnings.
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