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“Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.”

Heart Ends Religion Church Forget Moral Doctors Insight Expansion

Book:Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton

Source: Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character on the Several Grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion: Illustrated by Select Passages from Our Elder Divines, Especially from Archbishop Leighton

“One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.”

Ifs Way Giving Firsts Ideas Ends Would Be Earth Form Religion Gone Prejudice Ancient Deeper Insight Folly New Ideas Threatening Foe Better Life

Book:The Greek Way

Source: The Greek Way

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

May Religion Danger Insight Substitutes Perpetual Prophetic Gentility

Author:Georgia Harkness

“Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.”

Religion Dies Religious Christianity Records Inspired Valuable Insight Treated Word Of God Preaching

Author:John Piper

“Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.”

Mean Has Beens Made Used Religion Teach Morality Mass Destruction Excuse Insight Persecution Hippie Mass Destruction Brotherly Brotherly Love

Book:Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68

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