Opening Quotes by Georgia Harkness

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

— Georgia Harkness

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

— Georgia Harkness

Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.

— Georgia Harkness

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

— Georgia Harkness

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

— Georgia Harkness

The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

— 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…

— 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…

— Georgia Harkness

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.

— Georgia Harkness

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

— 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.

— 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…

— Georgia Harkness