“The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.” IfsMenSelfReasonNationsCausesInterestChurchTroubleCapacityClaimsSpeciesDuesDrivenContraryDisasterDevotionConclusionUrgesExcessAggressionTribesPreservationSelf InterestSelf PreservationDetrimentalCredo Author:Arthur Koestler
“Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.” UnderstandingChurchWineConnectedDevotionOrgansReservesGood Nature Book:Essays on Men and Manners Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing.” MadeReligionChurchTakenDevotion Book:Life Being the Best & Other Stories Source: Life Being the Best & Other Stories
“Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.” PeopleReligionLiteratureChurchTheaterRemainsDevotionPublic Service Author:Franz Grillparzer
“There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.” PeopleNeedsChristianSpiritualSpiritJesusChurchChristianityLordRelationMajorityMissionsDevotionRadicalSpiritual LifeRevivalOur LordFerventRevival PrayerConsecrationRadical Change Author:Andy Murray