You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. (Felix Adler)
The hero is 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. (Felix Adler)
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. (Felix Adler)
Like the builders of the second Jerusalem temple, we were compelled to build with one hand and to bear the sword, as it were, in the other. (Felix Adler)
No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased. (Felix Adler)
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment. (Felix Adler)
We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended. (Felix Adler)
Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. (Felix Adler)
Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost. (Felix Adler)
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. (Felix Adler)
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. (Felix Adler)
FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good. (Felix Adler)
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. (Felix Adler)
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience. (Felix Adler)
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. (Felix Adler)