“There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be.”

—  Halford E. Luccock

Marching Off the Map : And Other Sermons (1952), p. 83
Context: There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging. <!-- Some of us remember the old singsong of the geography class, "bounded on the north, south, east, and west." Not very exciting.

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