Georgia Harkness Quotes

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

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

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

... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To pray well one must pray much.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

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

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

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

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

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

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

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

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