J.R. Miller
Monday, November 19, 2007
Love in the Home
Where selfishness prevails there can be no real happiness. Indeed there is no deep, true, and holy love where selfishness rules. As love grows, selfishness dies out in the heart. Love is always ready to deny itself, to give, to sacrifice, just in the measure of its sincerity and intensity. Perfect love is perfect self-forgetfulness. Hence, where there is love in a home, unselfishness is the law. Each forgets self and lives for the others. But when there is selfishness it mars the joy. One selfish soul will destroy the sweetness of the life of any home. It is like an ugly thorn-bush in the midst of a garden of flowers.
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Hello Miss Carey,
If you wish to read more of J.R. Miller's books, there are a number on-line at www.JR-Miller.com. One pamphlet you may be interested in is Girls: Faults and Ideals, which contains quotations from letters of a number of young men concerning the points indicated in the title. Following its publication many young ladies wrote to the author suggesting that there should be a book bearing on the Faults and Ideals of young men, and that the young ladies should have an opportunity to show their opinion. This seemed a fair and proper request, and so JRM wrote: Young Men Faults and Ideals.
Happy reading
Len Jones
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