Author: Felix Adler

Quotes

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

- Felix Adler

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

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

- Felix Adler

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

- Felix Adler

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

- Felix Adler

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.

- Felix Adler

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.

- Felix Adler

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

- Felix Adler

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

- Felix Adler

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.

- Felix Adler

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