Many now veer away from the time-honored use of the term Father as applied to the Christian God ... This difficulty rests mainly, I believe, on failure to distinguish between a symbol and a definition. — 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
