The more one develops as a person, the more one wishes to be like the Father, as the Son wished to be like the Father. … We become ourselves through willing, joyful obedience. The gospel has no more use for self-esteem than it has for self-pity or self-regard. … One of the mistakes we make over and over again in life is to go directly for the things we think are important. But if we aim at self-fulfillment, we shall never be fulfilled. If we aim at education, we shall never become educated. If we aim at salvation, we shall never be saved. These things are indirect, supreme results of doing something else, and the something else is service, it is righteousness, it is trying to do the right thing, the thing that needs to be done at each moment.
Arthur Henry King, Arm the Children, p. 265
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