No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit. Edgar S. Brightman More Quotes by Edgar S. Brightman More Quotes From Edgar S. Brightman The spiritual life is indeed a life of struggle; but it is also a life of well grounded hope. Hope is grounded in freedom, and freedom is grounded in all the high purposes and powers of spirit, human and divine. The last word of spirit is Victory. Edgar S. Brightman struggle spiritual life If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. Edgar S. Brightman if-there-is-a-god immortality men