Church Quote by Felix Adler

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

— Maya Angelou

There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural…

— Karl Lehmann

A societies needs determines their ethics

— Maya Angelou

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

— Felix Adler

In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But…

— Dalai Lama

“In my opinion, the Church only possesses the moral authority to speak to others about its ethics only when it holds itself accountable at…

— Scott S. Haraburda

[The church's] job is to provide permanent solace and spiritual leadership to the people as a whole, whatever their government at the moment, so…

— James A. Michener

An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

“Christians are confronted with ethical and theological issues every day in the workplace. Preaching and ministry in urban churches must therefore help congregants form…

— Timothy Keller

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

— Louis Farrakhan

The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that…

— Philip Yancey

“The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system…

— William Golding