The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
“There seems to be a superstition among many thousands of our young who hold hands and smooch in the drive-ins that marriage is a… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
Anyone who imagines that bliss is normal is going to waste a lot of time running around shouting that he’s been robbed. The fact… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if they knew… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure by. Hoping for larger… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
The grandchildren of the kids who used to weep because the Little Match Girl froze to death now feel cheated if she isn't slugged,… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and of sects. Work for… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and thrilling bursts of speed. — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City. — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism. — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share
