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,… — 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… — John Haynes Holmes Copy Share Image
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
