religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human needs, has brought about an inevitable and in many respects wholesome revulsion. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know! — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
