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It was not, after all, so much in the travail of the soul as in a serene and effortless self-commitment to a power, not ourselves, which makes for righteousness, that we were to be saved.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn

He felt, because of the depth of his own implication, his passionate self-commitment, here, infinitely superior to more casual, to blinder, journeyings.

From The Bright Shawl by Hergesheimer, Joseph