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!

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

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

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

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

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the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the…

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churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite…

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

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

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The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our…

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religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent…

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Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

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love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

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To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

— Georgia Harkness

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this,…

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a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.

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To pray well one must pray much.

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the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic…

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The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.

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The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

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Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

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Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

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Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

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“The tendency to turn human judgements into divine commands turns religion into one of the most dangerous forces in the world.”

— Georgia Harkness