There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed.… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians to patriotism — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism. — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
Evil is a fact, not to be explained away, but to be accepted; and accepted, not to be endured, but to be conquered. — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
Religion must be used in furthering great works of justice and reform. It must be used to establish right relations between different groups of men, and thus to make a reality of brotherhood. It must be used to abolish poverty, the breeding ground of all misery and crime, by distributing equably among men the abundance of the soil. And it… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share
Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation. — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason. — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
