The Recovery of Ideals
A source page for quotes linked to Georgia Harkness.
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“The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.”
“Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.”
“while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.”
“the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.”
Source: The Gospel and Our World
“Life is a continual alternation of rest and action, of the need of comfort and the need of power.”
Source: Prayer and the common life
“Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.”
Source: The Recovery of Ideals
“To pray well one must pray much.”
Source: Prayer and the common life
“Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.”
Source: The Recovery of Ideals
“a sick society, unlike a sick individual, fares best under the ministration of many doctors.”
“The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.”
“Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.”
“To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.”
“... we all know how to pray better than we practice what we know!”
“To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.”
Source: The Recovery of Ideals