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> [Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/life-is-a-continual-alternation-of-rest-and-action-of-the-need-of/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

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## More by Georgia Harkness

> [To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/to-discover-or-recover-the-sense-of-religious-certainty-one-must/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/we-all-know-how-to-pray-better-than-we-practice-what-we-know/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/life-is-a-continual-alternation-of-rest-and-action-of-the-need-of/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/the-sooner-the-doctrine-of-original-sin-disappears-the-better-it-is/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/the-truth-is-seldom-found-in-extremes-central-truths-can-be/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/the-perpetual-danger-which-besets-religion-is-that-it-may-substitute/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/the-most-common-type-of-pessimism-is-neither-philosophical-nor/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/churches-like-all-the-rest-of-our-major-institutions-are-rooted-in/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/one-can-be-coerced-to-church-but-not-to-worship/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/while-religion-is-ethical-it-by-no-means-follows-that-ethics-is/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/the-great-danger-is-that-in-the-confession-of-any-collective-sin-one/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/religion-is-perhaps-its-own-worst-enemy-for-religion-masquerading/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/nature-left-to-itself-defeats-nature/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/love-is-always-in-danger-of-being-sentimentalized/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

> [To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-harkness/to-keep-god-at-the-center-of-one-s-life-requires-frequent-renewal-of/)

[Georgia Harkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-harkness/)

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