Battle Quote by Georgia Harkness Download Open image “The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.” — Georgia Harkness ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Battle Battle Justify Battle Religion Existence Fight Today Fighting Justify Primaries Primary Battle Religion Religion Fight Today War
Only those who are spiritual perceive the reality of the spiritual foe and hence engage in battle. Such warfare is not fought with arms… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
A misunderstanding in religion causes war, finding out what it really means brings peace. — Hannah Copy Share Image
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict. — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“The wars of religion that followed the Protestant Reformation caused many people to view religion as nothing more than an ideology with the potential… — Jeremiah Vallery Copy Share Image
“Christianity has secured for itself a continuing place, at the cost of surrendering the crucial battle field.” — Newbigin Copy Share Image
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“this spiritual war of the Christian lies chiefly on the defence, and therefore requires arms most of this kind to wage it.” — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The only religion which seems to have a function in time of war is the tribal religion which invokes a God as the exclusive… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know! — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The great danger is that in the confession of any collective sin, one shall confess the sins of others and forget our own. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
religion is perhaps its own worst enemy. For religion, masquerading under the guise of archaic creeds, and impossible literalisms, and ecclesiasticism indifferent to human… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
In the battle for police reform, accountability and justice, Americans don't have to re-invent the wheel. We just have to revoke the thing that… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“Which people take the time to care for their souls, these days? I reckon not many. But...hear this: I think that maybe in our… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role. — Tab Hunter Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's almost ironic sitting here watching stories about Norm's courageous 'battle' with cancer. He actually did a bit on stage about how stupid that… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image