A. Powell Davies Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.”
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“The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.”
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“Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.”
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“Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.”
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“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”
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“A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.”
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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
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“You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.”
-- A. Powell Davies
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