Quote by Felix Adler
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceas

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. – Felix Adler

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

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Patriotism
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The hero is the 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 saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. – Felix Adler

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

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Religion
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. – Thomas Carlyle

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Faith

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labors right to live has been challenged and denied. – John L. Lewis

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Faith

To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love. – Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Faith

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Faith

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Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Trust

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson. – Clare Short

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Ive been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest Ive seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of til death do we part. – Mitt Romney

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You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you dont have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I dont know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I dont know how much I pay in taxes. – Haruki Murakami

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Freedom