"The story of the decadence of the cathedral……" — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
"The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side."
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
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14 Quotes by Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Jenkin Lloyd Jones has 14 quotes on this site.
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The trick is to thank the Lord for letting you have the ride
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The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right…
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Life is like an old-time rail journey--delays, sidetracks, smoke, dust, cinders, and jolts, interspersed only occasionally by beautiful vistas and…
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Seek the underlying harmonies of love and the overarching rainbow of hope, rather than the surface distinctions of creeds and…
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Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.
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You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell?
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Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle…
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My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little…
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I am the third Jenkin Jones to preach that liberal interpretation of Christianity generally known as Unitarianism.
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My parents were lured to America by the democracy here promised. In our family, freedom was a word to conjure…
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The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also…
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Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion.…
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More Bigotry Quotes
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one of 265 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own…
— Joseph Addison
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
— George H. W. Bush
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
— Lord Byron
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a…
— Andrew Carnegie
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce…
— Maya Angelou
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen…
— William Hazlitt
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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