Carolina QuotesJesus believed in the infinite possibilities of an individual soul. His faith was a triumphant realization of the eternal development of the best in man—an optimistic vision of the human aptitude for endless expansion and perfectibility. This truth to him placed a sublime valuation on each individual sentiency–a value magnified infinitely by reason of its immortal destiny.
Anna J. Cooper Carolinian
Source
p. 298
- work
- A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South (1892)
- year
- 1892
- locator
- p. 298
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