Continuity Quote by Georgia Harkness

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

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To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

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... 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 cynical sneer…

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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 the hand…

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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 own.

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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 to human…

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