The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and goodwill into their relations. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but it cannot put neighborly courtesy and good-will into their relations. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
The influences that really make and mar human happiness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from trespassing, but… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep neighbors from… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
The belief in a satanic kingdom exists today only where religious and theological traditions keep this believe alive. — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share
